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Quotes About Relief

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
She can't catch on to slumber, the relief of oblivion.
~ Nikki Gemmell
Art, by overcoming the inhibition and by activating the playful primary process, which is intrinsically easier and more enjoyable than the procedures of normal responsible thought, on both counts effects a saving in psychic expenditure and provides relief from the pressures of reason
~ Norman O. Brown
Adam olmad??? için insanl??a vekâlet ediyordum. Esas adamlar gelseydi de ben de biraz rahat nefes alsayd?m.
~ Unknown
She served her people by giving them relief from pain and sickness. Also, she enriched them by allowing them to spread word of her abilities to neighboring people. She was an oracle. A woman through whom a god spoke. Strangers paid heavily for her services. They paid her people, then they paid her. That was as it should have been. Her people could see that they benefited from her presence, and that they had reason to fear her abilities.
~ Octavia E. Butler
They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
He learned how to forget, and forgetting brought him relief.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
We were interrogated as if we had murdered the Commandant with our own hands. Luckily
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Tenderness, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
What a relief to leave the job of directing the universe to God.
~ Unknown
It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
~ Ovid
Studies have shown that vibrations of 25 hertz applied to extremities promote wound healing, and increase bone density and muscle mass. They also help with pain relief. The cat's purr is 25 hertz (25 cycles per second).
~ Unknown
We sat in good silence, for me relieved silence, watching the thick rush-hour traffic and the jammed streetcars -- all leaving us behind, leaving me feeling cast off and useless, remembering when I too hate somewhere to go, something to do.
~ Unknown
Whanne she was gone the kynge was glad for she made suche a noyse,
~ Unknown
Kyle blinked. I don't think I've ever seen him quite so … neutral. "You can talk to Adam when he's not in the room, and you don't have a phone?" he asked. I nodded. He closed his eyes, and I could read his expression when he opened them again. "Thank you, dear Lord," he said with relief. "I thought I was going crazy.
~ Patricia Briggs
Suddenly I don't feel so bad at being rescued by a rabbit
~ Patricia Briggs
Thank goodness that's over," she said, taking the crown off and throwing it across the cave. It hit the wall and bounced off with a harsh clang. "You shouldn't treat your crown like that, Your Majesty," Cimorene said, retrieving the iron circlet. "Of course I should," Kazul said. "It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron instead of something soft and bendable. ...
~ Patricia C. Wrede
They flew out of town as if all the devils in hell were after them, but once out of sight, Cade slowed the horse and inquired anxiously, "Are you all right? I wasn't thinking. The child...?" Lily leaned her head against his back and gasped for breath now that the horse had found a steady pace. She shook her head in answer to his question. "I rode an oxen wagon from Mississippi when I was four months gone with Roy. I am fine." This
~ Patricia Rice
and green, a sign that whatever message Daisy was about to deliver was not a catastrophe. If a water main had burst or the air-conditioning
~ Patrick Carman
It is essentially an act of avoiding discomfort (i.e. the trouble of doing the intended task) and pursuing pleasure instead (i.e. substituting more enjoyable activities, plus the relief of not having to engage in the intended task).
~ Unknown
TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.
~ Patrick Ness
There's her silence, loud as a roar, pulling at me like the greatest sadness ever, like I want to take it and press myself into it and just disappear forever down into nothing. What a relief that would feel like right now. What a blessed relief.
~ Patrick Ness
Yer alive," he says, and he is so relieved, so happy, to see me in the middle of all that death where I am alone and alone and alone for ever, he is so happy that I vow to kill him -
~ Patrick Ness
Salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.
~ Patrick Ness