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Quotes About Relief

My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.
~ Samuel Beckett
But I could not stay with him myself, for having got a great cold by my playing the fool in the water yesterday I was in great pain, and so went home by coach to bed, and went not to the office at all, and by keeping myself warm, I broke wind and so came to some ease. Rose and eat some supper, and so to bed again.
~ Samuel Pepys
A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear, A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet or relief, In word, or sigh, or tear.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To relieve ourselves of open-ended narrative, we read into the winter stars all evening. There are just stars and stars and stars.
~ Sandra Lim
El Mayor drink twice and thrice then crouch down to the radio. He tweak its side, and its voice halt in silence. His shoulders ease. Then I surprise how my own fear relieve. Radio voice been like the voice of flies when your best child is dead.
~ Sandra Newman
Very slowly Elizabeth leaned forward until her forehead rested on his shoulder, shuddering with pleasure and relief at the feel of him, at his smell.
~ Sara Donati
Much of my life was a dreary grind in which I was responsible for everything, always. For someone else to take that responsibility, even for a few minutes, was pure pleasure.
~ Sara Gran
Chiropractic makes me feel a few inches taller each time I come out.
~ Christie Brinkley
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
~ Josh Billings
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
~ Jami Gertz
What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
~ Anthony Holden
Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.
~ Samuel Beckett
I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good, and relief that is almost tidal in scope washes over me in an awesome wave.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.
~ Jillian Bach
It's good Mam, you've got a bike It's so much better than walking Dad just thinks it's a blessed relief It's the only time you stop talking
~ John Walter Bratton
A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
~ Edward Abbey
It's such a cold night and it's the only time I've actively been grateful for menopause. I've been entirely comfortable.
~ Emma Thompson
Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.
~ Hunter Hayes
You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.
~ Diablo Cody
How ironic. You spend your whole life resisting the notion that there's someone out there smarter than you are, and then all of a sudden you're so relieved to know it's true. All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help.
~ Marianne Williamson
I shall feel safer when we are through Knightsbridge.
~ Marion Chesney
Into that empty form they could unload the grief and regret of their own lives, be rid of it, feel lucky and light for a few days, comforted by the thought, At least that wasn't me.
~ Marisha Pessl
The mind does its best to lessen the impact of any catastrophe. It really tries its best. But then the distance between reality and woven fantasy becomes too great for even the mind to bear. All those words of calm and relief, the hope that everything will be all right in the end, can't help stretching and tearing and fading to nothing. Then you wake up screaming.
~ Marisha Pessl
When the war finally ended, and Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee sat down to talk, Lee said that his men had not eaten in two days and asked Grant for food. According to some observers, when the Union supply wagons were pulled into sight, the defeated soldiers of the famished Army of Northern Virginia let out a cheer.
~ Mark Kurlansky