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Quotes About Relief

Good comedy can be liberating, and if I'm doing my job as a comedian, part of the joy for the audience is getting that release.
~ Pete Holmes
Finding a release mechanism after the pressure of a Test-match week can take over, and the next game can seem as though it might as well be six months away.
~ Gareth Thomas
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
~ Frank Moore Colby
Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing.
~ Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Humour allows people to exhale a little.
~ Zach Anner
I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it's because you've ripped a hole in your skin.
~ Gillian Flynn
I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.
~ Gillian Flynn
I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout.
~ Gillian Flynn
Quando, alla fine, mia sorella era morta, mi ero sentita in parte sollevata. Avevo sempre avuto la sensazione che fosse stata introdotta a forza in questo mondo senza il dovuto equipaggiamento. Non era pronta a sopportarne il peso.
~ Gillian Flynn
My nose flared involuntarily and my eyes started watering. You ever been near an animal-processing plant, you know what I mean. The smell isn't like water or air; it's a solid. Like you should be able to cut a hole in the stink to get some relief. You can't.
~ Gillian Flynn
The nurses gave us meds to alleviate our tingling skins. And more meds to soothe our burning brains.
~ Gillian Flynn
Down there, people would be relieved to know they're dead, and - and -' Her voice cracked. He stuck out his chin, daring her to say it. And what? And maybe we should be too, Amy blurted.
~ Gordon Korman
gave Mr. Davis belladonna to stop the pain—
~ Gore Vidal
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
~ Graham Greene
He felt the sad relief of a man who realizes that there is one love at least that no longer hurts him.
~ Graham Greene
Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.
~ Graham Greene
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.
~ Graham Greene
If Anna passed by, it brought Lara a shudder of relief. Only then could Lara take a breath. A very deep one.
~ Gregg Olsen
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering. -Farid
~ Gregory David Roberts
When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The melody faded like a rainbow after a storm, or like winds calming down at last; and what was left was calm, and possibility, and relief.
~ Gregory Maguire
Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
~ Christy Turlington
The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.
~ Paul Pierce