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Quotes About Relief

sometimes it feels good to smack the hell out of something.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
So it always is, he thought, to relieve another you must burden yourself.
~ Ellis Peters
Why do guys love to fart?" "They're expressing themselves.
~ Elmore Leonard
O Almighty God, O Divinity, Helpful Power, whoever, whatever Thou mayst be, take pity upon poor mankind and make human suffering cease! All
~ Émile Zola
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
~ Emily Giffin
I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined
~ Emily Giffin
You can, for just a moment, fuse grief like a bone, but the memory of the ability to bend lingers inside, like an itch running in the blood, just beneath the skin: relief is always only temporary. Grief, we understood, would now hijack a part of our day for the rest of our lives, sneaking in, making the world momentarily stop, every day, forever.
~ Emily Rapp
thankfully.
~ Enid Blyton
Here we are, said Berthold, mopping his forehead with a Kleenex. A section of the paper remained trapped in the worry lines of his forehead, and fluttered there like a windsock in the air-conditioner blast.
~ Eoin Colfer
Times relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise
~ Epictetus
Time relieves the foolish from sorrow, but reason relieves the wise.
~ Epictetus
Pain too is just a scary mask: look under it and you will see. The body sometimes suffers, but relief is never far behind.
~ Epictetus
The despair brought by unemployment comes not only from the threat of destitution, but from the sudden view of a vast nothingness ahead. The unemployed are more likely to follow the peddlers of hope than the handers-out of relief.
~ Eric Hoffer
the best moment in showbiz is when it is over. It's somewhat like sex in that regard…
~ Eric Idle
Concordia experienced a profound rush of relief. He was safely home. Now, perhaps she would be able to shake off the feeling of dread that has descended on her after he had left.
~ Amanda Quick
Who is the forgotten man...? I know him as intimately as my own undershirt. He is the fellow that is trying to get along without public relief... In the meantime the taxpayers go on supporting many that would not work if they had jobs.
~ Amity Shlaes
Trav held him, thinking only, Thank God. Thank God. He'll take me and not the drugs. Me and not the horrible fall. Thank God.
~ Amy Lane
He'd thrown up once already, on purpose, and the purging seemed to have steadied his nerves a little—and made the giant breakfast he'd eaten feel a little less burdensome—but it wasn't enough.
~ Amy Lane
After a murmur of general assent, Ariadne spoke up. "And oh my God, I have to pump my boobs. You guys, you don't even know. It's like having blue balls strapped to your chest!" After a horrified silence, the men practically ran screaming from the building.
~ Amy Lane
Here. Motrin and water. You'll feel better. Or you'll throw up. Either way you'll feel better.
~ Amy Lane
Salvation means that there is respite from whatever oppresses in the community that hears, and lives, this Gospel.
~ Amy-Jill Levine
Soon the pain felt wonderful, almost sweet, because it was the kind that you can tell precedes relief. But maybe all pain is like that.
~ Andre Agassi
He tried to remember her ever being this way before. In her voice--almost overexuberant--was not simply holiday cheer but joyous relief, like some terminally ill patient who's just been told she's not sick anymore.
~ Andre Dubus III
Pedaling fast fast fast, this is my only chance to stop it. This is the place where it looks like everything is gonna go horribly wrong and there's no hope, but then because it's a movie there is hope after all and there is a surprise that changes everything and everyone breathes a sigh of relief and everybody gets to go home and feel good about themselves and maybe fall asleep in the car.
~ Andrea Portes