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Quotes About Relief

While you were never properly welcomed, you were a dependable relief for us all, in the end, at the proper time for each one of us .
~ Vera Nazarian
It's almost a relief, not having to stare at the sun.
~ Vera Nazarian
It was plain to see the toll the extraordinary climb had taken—for an hour after Bandoola reached the top, his legs continued to quiver with involuntary contractions. What a relief
~ Unknown
What do you think of that? It's stopped raining." I'm glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.
~ Meg Ryan
Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
~ Y. C. James Yen
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
~ J. G. Ballard
I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself.
~ Mitch Hedberg
As she ran off, Aly and Cass sank to the ground, exhaling with relief. I looked back the way we'd come. I could see through the gate and down a long, sloped path to the city plaza. Marco was nowhere in sight.
~ Peter Lerangis
Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.
~ Philip Gourevitch
be free of her sinus headaches which have caused her not to appear before us on TV lately, and that those headaches not have anything
~ Philip K. Dick
It was such a strange tormenting feeling when your daemon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.
~ Philip Pullman
She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer. When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.
~ Philip Pullman
such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.
~ Philip Pullman
was such a strange tormenting feeling when your dæmon was pulling at the link between you; part physical pain deep in the chest, part intense sadness and love. And she knew it was the same for him. Everyone tested it when they were growing up: seeing how far they could pull apart, coming back with intense relief.
~ Philip Pullman
They were all talking now; the excitement and relief had loosened everyone's tongue.
~ Philip Pullman
If anything has been my salvation as a human being it is this choice of an activity which is, at the deepest level, out of my hands. What a relief! What a blessing! Better still, it had always been a drawback to see life differently from other people. In childhood, it had brought me little but heartache. Now I had stumbled on a profession in which it was an asset. 7 Five Good Scenes At the Royal Court, at any one moment, we had stacks of plays being considered.
~ David Hare
Fallible, adj. I was hurt. Of course I was hurt. But in a perverse way, I was relieved that you were the one who mad the mistake. It made me worry less about myself.
~ David Levithan
This is what a small victory feels like. It feels like a little surprise and a lot of relief. It makes the past feel lighter and the future seem even lighter than that, if only for a moment. It feels like rightness winning. It feels like possibility.
~ David Levithan
I don't want these thoughts anywhere near my mind. The weird thing is that when I withhold them, when I don't let Vanessa say them out loud, I don't sense relief from any of the people around me. I sense disappointment. They're bored. And their boredom is the thing that the meanness feeds on -A
~ David Levithan
I felt love. Right there, in the kitchen. And I felt relief.
~ David Levithan
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.
~ David Rakoff
To Roxy Music and EG's palpable relief, on 2 May 1972 the band were finally signed on as Island Records recording artists.
~ Unknown
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
~ Dean Koontz