Quotes About Relief

I submit that the real reason we criticized and disliked Lynch's Laura's muddy bothness is that it required of us an empathetic confrontation with the exact same muddy bothness in ourselves and our intimates that makes the real world of moral selves so tense and uncomfortable, a bothness we go to the movies to get a couple hours' fucking relief from.

something is malignantly addictive if (1) it causes real problems for the addict, and (2) it offers itself as a relief from the very problems it causes.

Thanks. SHULGSHULGSPAHHH… Whew. Ah.

Because it literally makes no sense. Close to two hundred people all punishing somebody by getting embarrassed for him, killing him by empathetically dying right there with him, for him, up there at the podium. The applause when this guy's done has the relieved feel of a fist unclenching, and their cries of 'Keep Coming!' are so sincere it's almost painful.

When Ulysses saw his brother, a wonderful thing happened to his face. All the terror left his eyes, because now he was home

One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.

One pain is lessened by another's anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.

Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. Sleep, the main course in life's feast, and the most nourishing.

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

La vida es mi tortura y la muerte será mi descanso.

Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief; Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss: The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief To him that bears the strong offence's cross.

The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow.

his cunning. That had been enough in the past, Palmer told himself, and it would be again. To his great relief, Morgan and the other man mounted up without searching the saddlebags on the dead horse. An ugly smile tugged at Palmer's mouth. Morgan was probably helping Stevens try to recover the money Soapy had stolen from him.

Good riddance to that wuthering height.

Refreshment is the remedy for all manner of embarrassments.

His parents should be here soon. I shall feel happier when they are able to take the responsibility.

What a relief to be confronted by an Earl Marshal instead of an Air Marshal.

Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the grin of relief spread over his face. That she did not see because her eyes had filled with tears. And the geraniums, they were just as sad. In any case, that's how they smelled.

The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you', but 'It's benign'.

The moment I sold the Plymouth was like having a tumor removed.

Thalassa, Thalassa!

Being able to see the end of anything gave him a tremendous sense of relief. As a child he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever; he had never considered the pain of not being able to die.

Moynihan aponta que, ... Os profissionais, ..., têm um interesse investido no descontentamento, pois as pessoas descontentes voltam-se para os serviços profissionais em busca de alívio. Contudo, o mesmo princípio forma a base de todo o capitalismo moderno, o qual tenta continuamente criar novas demandas e novos descontentamentos, que só podem ser amenizados pelo consumo de mercadorias.

Scott Jurek resumió el credo no oficial de los Jóvenes Pistoleros con una cita de William James que usaba para cerrar todos los emails que enviaba: «Más allá de lo extremo de la fatiga y el sufrimiento, encontramos cantidades de alivio y poder que nunca habíamos soñado con poseer; fuentes de fortaleza nunca antes puestas a prueba porque nunca habíamos empujado la puerta de oclusión». Conforme