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Quotes About Relief

Allí de rodillas lo abracé, le acaricié la espalda y el pelo y ambos lloramos juntos. No había palabras para expresar lo que sentíamos; las lágrimas lo decían por nosotros: el terror, el alivio, el amor y la pena todo mezclado en la sal.
~ Rachel Ward
Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement.
~ Radclyffe Hall
Unbody me–I'm tired–and get me home.
~ Ralph Hodgson
All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
~ Ralph Kiner
And when Rambo whispered to me, assuring me of my nearest death, I was relieved at my parents' absence, for my death like all death should be a death and an end- no memory, no photograph, no stories and no mother's tears. In death everything should cease. All else is nothing but human vanity and make-believe.
~ Rawi Hage
The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain. —Sigmund Freud
~ Ray Kurzweil
There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
~ Glenn Close
I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
~ Thom Yorke
It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
~ Bill Nighy
The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
~ Owain Yeoman
We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.
~ Jimmy Carter
I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.
~ Merle Haggard
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
~ Maeve Binchy
Breeze looked at me very steadily. Then he sighed. Then he picked the glass up and tasted it and sighed again shook his head sideways with a half smile; the way a man does when you give him a drink and he needs it very badly and it is just right and the first swallow is like a peek into a cleaner, sunnier, brighter world.
~ Raymond Chandler
one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall—in fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. "At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
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~ Rebecca Goldstein
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse—the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
~ Richard Adams
Voir s'achever le temps de l'angoisse et de la crainte ! Voir se lever puis se dissoudre les nuées lugubres suspendues au-dessus de nous — ces sombres nuages qui attristent le cÅ"ur et réduisent le bonheur à un vague souvenir ! Rares sont les êtres qui n'ont jamais éprouvé cette joie-là.
~ Richard Adams
To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
On writing: I don't like doing this, but it feels so good when I stop.
~ Richard Ford
You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.
~ Richard Hell
Your depression is exhaustion. Like Atlas, you try to carry this world on your own shoulders. This was never my intention. Allow me to carry the world.
~ Julia Cameron
I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]
~ Julian Barnes
My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a bloody good long shit.
~ Julian Barnes