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Quotes About Relief

I felt I hadn't breathed since early morning, that my heart had not beat-and only now for the first time I took a breath, only now the floodgates in my chest opened...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
With relief I arrived at memory's peak, and a broader landscape came into view.
~ Yu Hua
I somehow looked forward to death impatiently, with a sweet expectation. As i have remarked several times, the future was a heavy burden for me. From the very beginning, life has oppressed me with a heavy sense of duty. Even though i was clearly incapable of performing this duty, life still nagged at me for my dereliction. Thus I longed for the great sense of relief that death would surely bring if only, like a wrestler, I could wrench the heavy weight of life from my shoulders.
~ Yukio Mishima
I longed for the great sense of relief that death would surely bring if only, like a wrestler, I could wrench the heavy weight of life from my shoulders.
~ Yukio Mishima
I was like a person who has been suffering an unknown disease in an agony of fear: just learning the name of his disease, even though it is an incurable one, gives him a surprising feeling of temporary relief. He knows well, though, that the relief is only temporary. Moreover in his heart he foresees a still more inescapable hopelessness, which, by its very nature, will give a more permanent feeling of relief.
~ Yukio Mishima
As I have remarked several times, the future was a heavy burden for me. From the very beginning, life had oppressed me with a heavy sense of duty. Even though I was clearly incapable of performing this duty, life still nagged at me for my dereliction. Thus I longed for the great sense of relief that death would surely bring if only, like a wrestler, I could wrench the heavy weight of life from my shoulders.
~ Yukio Mishima
Stress and pain go down the drain. Leave me feeling good again.
~ Deborah Blake
smeared a balm over the end of it.
~ Deborah Challinor
said, "before you have your wicked way with me. I'm Tommy Godwin, by the way." "So I'd gathered," retorted Gemma, escaping gratefully to the loo. Once safely behind the closed
~ Deborah Crombie
It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view.
~ Deborah Moggach
Interwoven throughout the eschatological teaching of the New Testament are three strands. Christ will come sooner than people think, unpleasantly surprising many and delighting others by the speed of the relief that he provides; Christ will come later than people think, so his faithful servants must be prepared to endure even if he seems to be delayed; and the time of Christ's coming is not given to us to know.
~ Dennis E. Johnson
Priorities like winning the War on Terror and providing tax relief that will keep our economy growing strong.
~ Dennis Hastert
Spell STRESSED backwards, and you get DESSERTS. You can reverse stress by eating desserts. Life is sweet!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
An untied shoelace can be dangerous,' he said. 'I could have tripped.' She stared at him. A moment dragged by. 'I'm joking,' he said at last. She relaxed. 'Really?' 'Absolutely. I would never have tripped. I'm far too graceful.
~ Derek Landy
Her father sagged as relief spread through him. "I thought something awful was happening." She frowned. "Something awful was happening. It could have got stuck in my hair.
~ Derek Landy
To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.
~ Daniel D. Palmer
What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.
~ John H. Johnson
It rained in the Middle West. Farmers are learning that the relief they get from the sky beats what they get from Washington.
~ Will Rogers
Transformations were taking place here, and as much as I had felt part of a "natural" landscape on my trek to the lighthouse, I could not deny that these habitats were transitional in a deeply unnatural way. A perverse sense of relief overtook me; at least now I had proof of something strange happening, along with the brain tissue the anthropologist had taken from the skin of the Crawler.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Her mother knew her innermost thoughts. It almost made her want to cry with relief. But she didn't understand what that had to do with their argument.
~ Jen Calonita
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.
~ Jennifer Egan
His eyes weren't closed like they used to be when he'd make Danny tell about an ice castle on Pluto where a band of pirates lived. But wanting to be told a story, entertained, however that looks on a person's face--Danny saw this now and remembered it. It filled him with relief.
~ Jennifer Egan
She gave up the rest. The relief was physical, like releasing a long tight breath that had crowded her lungs for too long, letting it go because it was stale, the oxygen was gone.
~ Jennifer Egan
What a relief, that laughter! What a blessed release.
~ Jennifer Haigh