Quotes About Relief

But there comes a time when the old grow very tired, and the load of leadership unjustly heavy to bear. And perhaps—perhaps!—Heribert would not be quite so sad as even he now supposed, if the load should be lifted from him.

make medicines against pain, the chief enemy of man. Pain, and the absence of sleep, which is the most beneficent remedy for pain.

to ease the drain on the food supplies.

But the dawn did come—at last.

The whole dead weight of my growing fear fell upon me and shook me. Then I burst out laughing too. It was the only thing to do: and the sound of my laughter also made me understand his. The strain of physical pressure caused it-- this explosion of unnatural laughter in both of us; it was an effort of repressed forces to seek relief; it was a temporary safety-valve.

To render relief to the distressed and to help the oppressed make amends for great sins.

he always went straight to the machines and in a strange way it was a relief to because having to talk with someone, even the smallest, most casual talks, was sometimes quite hard because you always felt they judged you or you always felt shy or that you were saying a stupid or wrong thing. The pitfalls of human exchange, Sophia said.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

All I will say is my brother's narrow idea of Christianity seems to bring more suffering into the world than relief.

Sleep nourishes, sure, but it also absolves, removing the demands of the daily, the duties and tasks, and the pesky need to exist.

I would suddenly be seized with a desire to go down to the beach for a swim. And merely to have imagined the sound of ripples at my feet, and then the smooth feel of the water on my body as I struck out, and the wonderful sensation of relief it gave

The whole business of smoking is like forcing yourself to wear tight shoes just to get the pleasure of taking them off.

Smokers do not smoke because they enjoy it. They do it because they are miserable without it.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

You want to hear that, right? ? I mean that's what they told you. That's why Jamie is so worried about his crazy kid sister. Because-news flash-she really is crazy." The last part I say softly. They're the words I have been carrying for so long that they have a weight of their own. Physical. I should feel lighter now that I've released them, but there is no relief from the truth.

A new feeling coursed through me—relief. I felt…like a girl. Like I didn't know all the answers and that was okay because I still had time to learn them.

Pero hoy no han matado a nadie

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

He was nearly home, and he was experiencing in full the phenomenon of something unpleasant becoming far more so when one need not endure it much longer.

Quand on cesse de souffrir, cela s'appelle réconfort. Cesser d'avoir soif ne s'appelle pas.

Quel soulagement d'avoir trouvé la solution des fiançailles! C'était une réponse liquide en ceci qu'elle ne résolvait rien et remettait le probléme à plus tard. Mais gagner du temps est la grande affaire de la vie.

I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.

After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.

The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.