Relief quotes
376 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief."
"Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation."
"The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing."
"The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation."
"It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die."
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"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief."
"Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say."
"What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life."
"If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief."
"The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides."
"It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief."
"Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream."
"Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute."
"Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution."
"The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less."
"Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief."
"Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections."
"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
"When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come."
"There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom."
"Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making."
"The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself."
"Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief."
"For this relief, much thanks"
"Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief."
