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Quotes About Relief

While leaning over the toilet getting up his nerve, he thought that the moment before making yourself throw up must be very like the instant before suicide. You are almost content to bear the sickening headache and the torment in your stomach rather than go through that moment. But the prospect of relief made you foolhardy and you jammed your finger down your throat.
~ John Clellon Holmes
The day passed, a poor, sluggish thing that departed almost gratefully as night took its place.
~ John Connolly
When she's drinking, it's bad, but when she's not drinking, well, it's like living with a bomb in the house. The bomb is ticking, and you know it's going to explode, so you just spend your days waiting for the bang. And when it happens, you're almost relieved.
~ John Connolly
A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.
~ Richard G. Scott
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
~ Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I decided to focus on the things I could control and let go of the things that were out of my hands. That lesson has provided me with great relief; it has brought great things into my life.
~ Raul Castillo
Humor is essential to a full and happy life. It is a reliever and relaxer of pressure and tension, and the saving element in many situations.
~ Richard L. Evans
Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
Therapy is not to 'talk about' things, but to change the person's life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.
~ David D. Burns
Things change when you're not in danger anymore.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Mrs. Browning's death was rather a relief to me, I must say; no more Aurora Leighs, thank God!
~ Edward Fitzgerald
What they don't understand—and the wide world certainly does not understand—is that these reckless acts do stem from a biological need to alter their inner state. In pain, they feel compelled to seek relief immediately.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
These situations allow the ADD person not only to get into forward motion, but also to forget, to disregard that they need brakes in the first place. In an emergency, it's full speed ahead. What a relief.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
For example, if you were nearsighted and had never heard of nearsightedness, and for years you had thought your blurry vision and subsequent learning problems were due to lack of effort or moral turpitude, imagine your relief in discovering that there was this condition called nearsightedness, and it had nothing to do with effort or morality, but rather was a neurological condition. So it is with ADD.
~ Edward M. Hallowell
What a burden it is to feel responsible for everything. The weight of the world drags you down until the pressure is so great, you no longer feel joyful. About anything.The world has become heavy. But you don't have to carry the world anymore.
~ Edward Weiss
Between dreams stand hope and despair, which cause a feeling of relief and grief.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Psychologically, crying relieves and softens the burden of grief and pain of sorrow; whereas, spiritually, it cleans the sins and mistakes and purifies the conscience and soul.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Ginger twitched his ears and the loose skin on his back and legs to let Jerry know he was here and he was happy. Then he lowered his head down on his paws again and he let out a deep sigh that sounded almost like a sob, there was in it so much relief and pain and pleasure and remembering.
~ Eleanor Estes
By a similar operation, the write-up of Wholesome Fresh moved me almost to tears. Supposedly open 24 hours, Wholesome Fresh offers pretty much everything your heart desires. Hearty sandwiches. Hot dishes. Sushi. Chocolate Sauce. Paprika. Napkins. There it was, finally on display: the gap between the idea that Wholesome Fresh promulgated about itself, in a naïve or sinister way, and what it felt like to actually be there. What a relief to see it articulated!
~ Elif Batuman
to the nurse at the hospital- I don't want pain pills, I want ANTI -pain pills
~ Anthony Klco
Bøkene er alltid tilgjengelige følgesvenner. Alderdom, ensomhet, lediggang, kjedsomhet, smerte og uro: Det finnes ikke den hverdagslige plage som bøkene ikke kan lindre, såfremt plagene ikke er for sterke. Bøkene mildner bekymringene og tilbyr trøst og støtte.
~ Antoine Compagnon
A bunch of thieves goes to culprit chief who is himself responsible for the people's pain & grief and they do dramatic stiff protest and plead to him only to remove restrictions and give relief to common people. Once all drama of agitation got over and after a few weeks, ordinary mass got nothing, but those thugs got from him a brief case full of green leaf and prized position in politics
~ Anuj Somany