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Quotes About Relief

The more anxious and alone or inadequate and incompetent they feel, the more tenaciously they hold to whatever thoughts, attitudes and behaviors bring relief. If they do not develop more effective coping mechanisms, the ones that bring relief solidify into self-defeating behaviors.
~ Mark Goulston
Trump, too, would pass, like a kidney stone.
~ Mark Leibovich
The literature of civilizational decline, to which Zemour's Le Suicide Francais is a minor contribution, is typically brash and breathless. Not so Submission. There is not even drama here, no clash of spiritual armies, no martyrdom, no final conflagration. All one hears at the end is a bone-chilling relief. The old has passed away. The new has come. Whatever.
~ Unknown
Cortisone is good shit.
~ Mark Rowlands
What I had not realized then, but now know only too well, is that sparks carry within them the wish to be relieved of the burden of brightness. And that is why I no longer write, and why the dark is is my freedom and my happiness.
~ Mark Strand
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~ Mark Twain
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot
~ Agatha Christie
Hooray! Hooray! The end of the world has been postponed!
~ Unknown
Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"
~ Lefty Gomez
This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!
~ Mitch Hedberg
Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
~ Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
Lunch makes me feel a bit better.
~ Suzanne Collins
We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped out of our restrictive past, and the expectant air of walking into a brighter future.
~ Nelson Mandela
I've often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
~ Jimmy Carter
Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
~ Unknown
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
~ John Gray
Is true, you do feel better about things the further you run from it
~ Marlon James
I just need to fucking breathe
~ Marlon James
He loved me, Mama. He just didn't know how things fall down around me like they do. I think he did the right thing. He gave himself another chance, that's all.....I was trying to say it's all right that Cecil left. It was...a relief in a way. I never was what he wanted to see, so it was better when he wasn't looking at me all the time.
~ Marsha Norman
We know a speaker has received adequate empathy when (1) we sense a release of tension, or (2) the flow of words comes to a halt.
~ Marshall B. Rosenberg
Be patient, darling, and try to trust both your heavenly and your earthly father. You know that no trial can come to you without your heavenly Father's will, and that He means this for your good. Look to Him and he will help you to bear it, and send relief in His own good time and way.
~ Martha Finley
I got my helmet on and opaqued it. The relief was intense, about even with finding out that the combat override module had been removed. I love you, armor, and I'm never leaving you again.
~ Martha Wells
I thought I had one of your father, but it didn't develop." Tremaine nodded ruefully. "It's the silver nitrate in the film stock. He doesn't show up on it." Giaren stared at her blankly. "That was a joke," she added belatedly. "Oh." He sounded relieved.
~ Martha Wells