Quotes About Relief

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

That was what was missing. Every hurt he'd ever suffered, every ache he'd ever endured—it was all as gone as an expired breath. He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm.

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself, (...), and life went on, and people found things to do and ways to be and people to be with, and plausible desirable futures began to emerge, unimaginable previously, but not unimaginable now, and the result was something not unlike relief.

elements of fiction are connected by the total scene or background against which they stand out in relief.

2) Terms are connected in propositions. The elements of fiction are connected by the total scene or background against which they stand out in relief.

Time passed, and a morning came when Grace woke up at Yeotown feeling, if not quite happy, at least without a stifling blanket of unhappiness. This blanket had hitherto weighed upon her like something physical, so that there had been days when she had hardly been able to rise from under it and get out of bed.

So he found it a relief and a delight to be treated with something less than royal respect. Meg's shafts of wit were never cruel, and she aimed them most often at herself. Trevyn had seen her with the wolves; he knew her courage. Her merciless honesty concerning her own shortcomings was a different kind of courage, he thought, and he admired her for it.

the poorest people in the United States subsidized the contractor bonanza twice: first, when Katrina relief morphed into unregulated corporate handouts, providing neither decent jobs nor functional public services; and second, when the few programs that directly assist the unemployed and working poor nationwide were gutted to pay those bloated bills.

So he had actually come to my rescue. That was even worse.

The sea, the sky, the air see us as trouble.   They're right of course. We see each other as the landmarks of a day.   History doesn't see us. It doesn't see us at all.   From this we should draw one ounce of relief. At

Man weiß nie, wann einem ein Lutschbonbon aus der Patsche helfen kann.

Les feuilles d'oranger luisaient comme des larmes d'argent, et le chant de la fontaine serpentait sous les arcades. Je scrutai la cour d'un regard déjà chargé de déception et peut-être aussi d'un lâche soulagement. Elle était là. Sa silhouette se découpait devant la fontaine, assise sur un banc, les yeux tournés vers les arcades du cloître.

a trouble shared is a trouble halved'.

I want a swallow of whiskey to take that pill, Polly yelled. Damn things get stuck when you make me take them water.

refill the aspirin bottle

was that day." He heaved a heavy sigh of relief. Two more weeks and he'd be on his way, but until then, he'd better watch his words a

The weight on Emma's heart crumbled into tiny pieces. If Nancy had asked her how she felt, she would have said, "Like the darkness is gone.

After such mornings he returned to the show with relief. It eased him to push through the crowds of people. The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves.

She felt relieved to have known him, to love him and to be loved by him, and relief that the last thing he saw was her face smiling down on him, encouraging him and assuring him it was OK to let go.

Unlike humans, who have the power (or curse) of denial to keep them in an abusive situation, animals will always move toward balance. Automatically, the brain says, "Hey, finally I get a rest." They are relieved to be out of that state of constant tension.

Finally, I drew in a long breath. It was noisy and painful and just heaven.

Not one man in a million would have allowed me the time without speaking. I opened my mind, let my gaurd down completely, relaxed. His silence washed over me. I stood, closed my eyes, breathed out the relief that was too profound for words.

Today, the rich bottom land of the Misssissippi is under water and no foreign land has sent a dollar to help.

I have a mentality that is really taking off all the pressure.