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Quotes About Relief

Just about the only affliction Mesmerism seemed powerless to cure was the one that plagued Dickens the most: asthma. So he found relief the old-fashioned way: He took opium.
~ Robert Schnakenberg
There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.
~ L.M. Montgomery
As for Mr. Meredith, said Miss Cornelia, even his engagement has made a different man of him. He isn't half so dreamy and absent-minded, believe me. I was so relieved when I heard that he had decided to close the manse and let the children visit round while he was away on his honeymoon. If he had left them and old Aunt Martha there alone for a month I should have expected to wake every morning and see the place burned down.
~ L.M. Montgomery
I wrote a chapter. A burden rolled away from my spirit. And I was suddenly back in my own world with all my dear Avonlea and Glen folks again. It was like going home...
~ L.M. Montgomery
It is the injustice that stings me. There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.
~ L.M. Montgomery
The Devil he blew an outward breath, for his heart was free from care.
~ Larry Niven
I'd want to remember how I had felt sitting here—to take it with me, this sense of relief I knew we were both feeling, the quietly growing momentum that eventually I'd understand comes from letting go of the things you were holding on too tightly to in the first place.
~ Laura Dave
A load lifted as the day stretches out before him, empty and relaxed.
~ Laura Dave
Por fin ahora después de que infinidad de hombres han pasado por mí, siento un gran alivio
~ Laura Esquivel
Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I was wiping Tlaloci's brains off my face when Olaf came to stand in front of me. I never thought I'd say this, but damn I'm glad to see you. He actually smiled. I saved your life. That made me smile. I know.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Anxiety, she thought, was like a flock of birds on a telephone line. When people came around they flapped off, and when the people went away they hopped back on.
~ Laurie Colwin
If the president was back, then the fever was truly over. If the president was back, we were safe. I threw my arms around Nathaniel and planted a big kiss on his cheek. He pulled back in surprise. "Do you always do that when the president rides by? If so, I'll take a job working for him." I blushed and looked down at my feet.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I cut class, you cut class, he, she, it cuts class. We cut class, they cut class. We all cut class. I cannot say this in Spanish, because I did not go to Spanish today. Gracias a dios. Hasta luego.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?
~ Laurie R. King
The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Is it sad that my first thought happened to be: Thank God I'm off the treadmill.
~ Gena Showalter
Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
~ James M. Barrie
You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.
~ Suzanne Collins
One smile relieves a heart that grieves.
~ Robert Graves
Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.
~ Jack Nicholson
It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Well, I'm glad you didn't drown." His eyes warm up with his face. I smile back at him. "Yeah, that would've sucked." "Definitely.
~ J.A. Redmerski
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.
~ Francis Aveling