Quotes About Relief

The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses.

Many unfortunate human situations unfold [. . .] where people who face bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. The thought of accepting the large sure loss is too painful, and the hope of complete relief is too enticing, to make the sensible decision that it is time to cut one's losses.

Do whatever it takes to stop feeling bad, including downing a couple of shots of bourbon.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

For a second, he was a little relieved. He would always rather deal with the murder of a drug addict. Addicts died young anyway.

After a breakup there's a momentary relief that you're free again. But that's quickly eclipsed by all the good memories you had together and the realization that there won't be any more of them.

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

It is a fact of modern political life that when such disasters strike, even those Americans who say they believe in smaller government, or no government at all, quickly break glass and call the government, demanding relief.

Yaahs!" said Lord Rader-Wellorff, sticking his head out of the roof too. "Oh, that's better," said Peevish, whose head appeared last, as he groaned with relief and tried, in the small space left in the roof rectangle, to stretch his lower back.

Life is meaningless, but it also has meaning—or, more accurately, meanings. There is no such thing as the meaning of life. Many different meanings are possible. One can transcend the self and make a positive mark on the lives of others in myriad ways. These include nurturing and teaching the young, caring for the sick, bringing relief to the suffering, improving society, creating great art or literature, and advancing knowledge.

I was nervous about the meeting, not

Y luego se besaron. Algo exploto dentro de su pecho, haciéndolo olvidar la tensión, la confusión y el miedo, borrando el dolor de unos segundos antes. Por un momento sintió que ya nada le preocupaba. Que a partir de ese momento todo estaría bien.

Just kidding. That's really good, actually. I'm glad you weren't attacked by KillSims or Rodents of Unusual Size.

Why should jokes and metaphors give such pleasure? Because we can't stand very much ambiguity. Cognitive dissonance makes us uneasy, and for good reason-survival depends on making the world as predictable as possible. So when we figure something out, when we impose order on what seems chaotic, we heave a psychological sigh of relief.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

The dog did not move as the needle was inserted, and, as the barbiturate began to flow into the vein, the anxious expression left his face and the muscles began to relax. By the time the injection was finished, the breathing had stopped.

This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The warmth of the bourbon still glowed deep within her, helping her find her center. How could something so simple have brought her so much relief? But Safia sensed it wasn't truly the alcohol so much as the kindness. She had forgotten what that was like. It had been too long. Not since…not

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

His face had grown so poisonous to her that now she wouldn't even touch the photograph except to pick it up by the edges. The despair of her house was the work of his hand. He deserved to die. Throwing the snake on his grandmother had given her no relief. It was him she wanted.

though the darkness sometimes lifted just enough so I could construe my surroundings, familiar shapes solidifying like bedroom furniture at dawn, my relief was never more than temporary because somehow the full morning never came, things always went black before I could orient myself and there I was again with ink poured in my eyes, guttering around in the dark.

immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by "the raillery

wanted an operation, not the boy-making kind, but a lever in the flesh, one I could permanently switch to off. I longed for immunity, distance, relief—not the end of all sex, but the end of the need, and more than the flesh, the end of the need for love