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Quotes About Relief

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
~ Christopher Morley
What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.
~ Cicero
We keep going around in circles, but nothing will ever change. I know that our relationship is over, it's almost a relief. Beatrice has won.
~ Unknown
Por que é que você me pede tanta aspirina? Não estou reclamando, embora isso custe dinheiro. - É para eu não me doer. - Como é que é? Hein? Você se dói? - Eu me doo o tempo todo. - Aonde? - Dentro, não sei explicar.
~ Clarice Lispector
There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.
~ Claudia Rankine
The only cure for a headache is a hangover.
~ Clifford Thurlow
To write sincerely, almost sincerely! I hope it may bring me relief, that sort of interior silence which follows a sudden utterance, a confession.
~ Colette
Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
~ Herge
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
~ Herodotus
Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop.
~ Hilary Mantel
She considered it a great relief when a few days later she heard that her abandoned husband had caught pneumonia.
~ Hilary McKay
Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued," Cardan says. "For once.
~ Holly Black
It occurs to me that if I kill him, I can finally stop thinking about him. If I kill him, I won't have to feel like this anymore.
~ Holly Black
My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.
~ Holly Black
Kaye wondered if everyone felt like there was a monster underneath their skin. It was obvious that the relief wasn't the largest part of what he felt. It was obvious that he was in pain, that he'd been crying. And yet it was what he was dwelling on, an imperfect mourning.
~ Holly Black
Your dad used to say that our problems disappear when we laugh and I think he was right. They do, even if only for those few minutes while we are laughing.
~ Unknown
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
~ Holly Near
It was as hot as ever, even the turn of the moon bringing no relief, and the cries of cicadas fell like showers around me.
~ Lian Hearn
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.
~ Liane Moriarty
I'm having a nervous breakdown, she thought with relief. I'm about to lose my mind, and that's just as well, because this cannot possibly be fixed. It is simply not fixable.
~ Liane Moriarty
One epidural for my headache, please.
~ Liane Moriarty
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. "Would you like a cup of tea?" John-Paul stood
~ Liane Moriarty
lately with work, and, you know, the baby thing. Obviously it would never happen again and he was very, very, very sorry and he loved her so much and God, it was such a relief to have this
~ Liane Moriarty
And maybe she didn't need to go ahead with the Plan after all. Maybe it was going to be OK. Maybe that clamping sensation around her head was gone.
~ Liane Moriarty