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Quotes About Relief

Hoy, no; hoy respiramos; hoy se humedece nuestra boca achicharrada y se calma el ardor de nuestro corazón...
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
want to scream, and sometimes I do. On occasion, I scream as loudly as I can
~ Emily Barr
It is only people who have had a tooth out, that really know the dentist's waiting room.
~ bagehot walter x
The best that he had ever managed in bed, so far, had been the maximum of relief with the minimum of hostility.
~ baldwin james vi
If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we're doing is really love, I'd be so tremendously relieved...
~ Banana Yoshimoto
If someone could give me some sort of evidence that what we're doing here is really love, I'd be so tremendously relieved that I'd probably kneel down at that person's feet. And if it isn't love, if it's eventually going to end, I want to go on sleeping like this; I want to stop hearing the phone when he calls. Let me be alone again.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
For one thing, I was breathing more easily than I had been even yesterday. I was sick to death at the prospect of more suffocatingly lonely nights. The idea that they would be repeated, that was just how life was, made me shudder with horror. Still, having tasted for myself that moment when I suddenly could breathe easy again made my heart beat faster.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Había sido un día agotador. Pero llorar me había aliviado mucho y pronto me vistió un sueño apacible.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[...]
~ Barbara Comyns
Always a sucker for blue eyes, she was relieved to be released.
~ Barbara Delinsky
How to describe what she felt as she stood at the head of an all-new cobblestone drive looking at the rebuilt facade of what had once been a weary old Cape? There was relief that the hard work was done, and surprise—always surprise—that everything had come together so well. There was also a sense of ownership. Caroline hadn't asked to be the mouthpiece of the show, but after nearly ten years as host, it was her baby as much as anyone's. Gut
~ Barbara Delinsky
Heavy burdens fell away so easily when one is traveling.
~ Barbara Hodgson
Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford
His books distracted him for a while. They were like the aspirins you take when you've got a headache. They kill the pain for two hours and then it comes back.
~ Barbara Vine
The private wars were the curse of Europe which the crusades, it has been thought, were subconsciously invented to relieve by providing a vent for aggression.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Why is being in the military like a blow job? The closer you get to discharge, the better you feel.
~ Barry Dougherty
Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?
~ Barry Lyga
I can't tell Mom. Can't tell her that her insistence on my productivity doesn't matter. That her insistence that I think about my future doesn't matter. None of that matters. I won't be around in the future. The decision has already been made. I won't be around. Whether it's now or in a week or in a few months. It's going to happen. Soon. I'm almost relieved.
~ Barry Lyga
Actually I don't need the sleep as much as I need the escape. It's a wonderful way to escape. I think I can't stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage in my life nothingness is a lot better than somethingness.
~ Beatrice Sparks
I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.
~ Jean-Claude Duvalier
I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.
~ Loni Love
The grittier, the dirtier, the worse I can look, the happier I am. It takes the pressure off.
~ Douglas Booth
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
~ Joseph O'Neill