Quotes About Relief

At least by now he was familar with the patterned patternlessness of the life he was submitting to again. His reappearance was greeted not with happiness or relief, but with a blithe lack of surprise. Because such a return was always going to happen. Because young men must be allowed their delinquencies, but shouldn't be congratulated when they returned to a place they should never have left.

there was a sudden easing in him, as if someone had finally played a note that harmonized with the one he sounded every day.

It's sad, but a relief as well, to know that two things so closely bound together can separate with so little violence, leaving smooth surfaces instead of bloody shreds.

My shoulders were light again, as though I'd been cured of the ague, and my tears stopped.

At last you have come, threading your way through the endless passages of the maze.

Akane sighed with relief. Having any more blank periods cutting into the film of her life would be unbearable.

Sean only wanted me as a friend. A nonsexual female friend. That was a good thing. There would be no tension to complicate our relationship and my soon-to-be relationship with Jeff Akel. I was relieved.

Der kom en vederkvægende ro, en dyb fred og fryd over mig, det var som når en feber ophører. Her, tænkte jeg, kan jeg blive.

Will let out a breath he felt like he'd been holding his entire life.

Claire lunged toward her desk. She opened the drawer. Lydia's file was still hidden inside. Claire's relief was so pronounced that she wanted to cry. She touched her fingers to her cheek. She was crying. Her tear ducts were on constant standby for anything that would send them over. Instead of giving in to it, Claire shut the drawer. She wiped her eyes. She stood up. She straightened her shirt as she made her way to the kitchen.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

A woman should be a comfort and a relief, a restful pillow for the weary head.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.

More lightly do his sorrows press upon a man, when to a friend or fellow traveller he tells his griefs.

I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems.

My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.

When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Sweetness eliminates gravity and thus a man with a heavy burden of life starts feeling like floating in the air before sweetness.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.