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Quotes About Relief

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.
~ Eden Robinson
Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
~ Judith Guest
Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.
~ Fiona Apple
I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
~ Jeri Ryan
When I would feel down...I'd have some noodles father prepared, and all the worries I had that day...Poof! They would all disappear.
~ Kim Young-kwang
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
~ Lionel Shriver
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
~ Sam Neill
Humor acts to relieve fear.
~ Unknown
Life is too hard when you try to solve everything by yourself without involving God in it.
~ Unknown
Truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. Lie is like a pain killer. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.
~ Unknown
Dear LOL, thank you for being there when things get awkward. Sincerely, I have nothing else to say.
~ Unknown
I pretty much spend all day, every day, just looking forward to going back to sleep.
~ Unknown
If you could just get off of my mind for 10 seconds...Maybe I could fall asleep.
~ Unknown
I wish my bladder had a snooze button.
~ Unknown
that sense of relief which one has in reading Kant when, after the most rigorous demonstration of determinism, one finds that above the world of necessity there is the world of freedom.
~ Marcel Proust
E eu continuava resistindo. E essa resistência me custava cada vez menos esforço, porque, por muito apego que se tenha ao veneno que nos está fazendo mal, quando por uma necessidade se passa algum tempo sem ingeri-lo, não é possível deixar de apreciar o descanso, que antes era coisa desconhecida, e a ausência de emoções e sofrimentos.
~ Marcel Proust
The hope of being relieved gives him the courage to suffer.
~ Marcel Proust
A calma que resultava de minhas angústias findas dava-me uma alegria extraordinária, não menos que a espera, a sede e o medo do perigo.
~ Marcel Proust
it is that the bulk of what appear to be the emotional renderings of our inmost sensations do no more than relieve us of the burden of those sensations by allowing them to escape from us in an indistinct form which does not teach us how it should be interpreted.
~ Marcel Proust
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~ Marcel Proust
Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.
~ Marcia Angell
I felt lighter. It was as though I'd cut the rope around my neck that'd been tied to a barge of misery. A barge I'd been dragging around my whole life.
~ Marcia Clark
An orgasm -- for all that ails you. -Kelly's thoughts
~ Unknown