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Quotes About Relief

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.
~ Frank Wolf
I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.
~ Jimmy Gomez
Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now.
~ Lynn Nottage
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Sunglasses are a migraine sufferer's best friend.
~ Cindy McCain
The demands that the hard work of love make on our development are larger than life, and as beginners we are not a match for them. But if we can hold out and take this love upon us as a burden and an apprenticeship, instead of losing ourselves in all the trivial and frivolous games behind which people have hidden from the utter seriousness of their existence, then perhaps a small advance and some relief will be sensible to those who come long after us. That would mean a great deal.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
In the Bible, Jesus says more than anyone else about Hell. He refers to it as a literal place and describes it in graphic terms. Jesus taught that in Hell the wicked suffer terribly, are fully conscious, retain their desires and memories and reasoning, long for relief, cannot be comforted, cannot leave their torment, and are bereft of hope. The Savior could not have painted a bleaker picture.
~ Randy Alcorn
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.
~ Joseph Conrad
Even the extremely sadness can in the end give itself a break in violence.
~ Joseph Conrad
I seemed at one bound to have been transported into some lightless region of subtle horrors, where pure, uncomplicated savagery was a posi-tive relief, being something that had a right to exist—obviously—in the sunshine.
~ Joseph Conrad
It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.' Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.' Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete.
~ Joseph Heller
Any method or process that alleviates human misery, pain, and distress is good. Many churches practice the laying on of hands; others make novenas and visit shrines; all are benefitted according to their mental acceptance or belief.
~ Joseph Murphy
Relief is happiness for those who, otherwise, would have no happiness.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It simply fell from him, like a heavy overcoat he'd shrugged off, no longer needing its warmth or bulk to protect him.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
As soon as she'd come home that afternoon, she took two aspirin tablets. To get her through the ordeal of supper, two more. It seemed to her that the pain in her lower belly, the hot sullen seepage of blood in her loins had lessened. Her skin was hot, her forehead burning.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I have found that people want and need to explore this subject in their own lives, that the discussion brings needed relief—to all of us. For we all, being human, have some suicide story in our past or our future.
~ Judy Collins
I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us
~ Walt Whitman
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
~ Washington Irving
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place.
~ Washington Irving
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
~ Washington Irving
The only medication she enjoyed was the morphine they administered in even higher doses
~ Weldon Burge
I think someone needs more morphine," Dr. Raymond said
~ Weldon Burge
Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.
~ Wendell Berry
individuals feel relieved of responsibility when they know that others have heard the same request for help.
~ Daniel Kahneman