88 Quotes About Relief

Remember that a person’s life is a reflection of the choices he has made. How we treat the world around us, and how we treat our fellow man, reflects on us. It is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day cares of life, but it’s important to remember that there are people who need your help. When you see someone in need, do not be afraid to lend a hand Read more

These quotes on helping others will inspire you to be a good person and help more people in need.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to...
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."] Mark Twain
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People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy. Ayn Rand
The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear....
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The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief? Sebastian Faulks
Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms...
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Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming. Germany Kent
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Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that. Kamand Kojouri
You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask...
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You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask. Kamand Kojouri
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I don’t know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist. Why do we need more evidence? They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani’sdulcet words all around you. And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children’s cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice, their families, and their limbs. Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment, as I pen this poem. And all we’re doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing. Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell? . Kamand Kojouri
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Jail's are a spooky place, " remarked Bill, trying to match the pace of detective Adam."Oh that is nothing in front of the ultimate fear" replied detective Adam."Ultimate fear?"" Funny thing that, the ultimate fear is also the ultimate relief."" Which is?"" Death Rao Umar Javed
May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering...
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May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human. Kamand Kojouri
There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'...
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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
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Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep. Andrew Sean Greer
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The problem with thick skin is that it leaves you impervious to the sharpest of pins. Everything becomes dull. But without that sense of pain, there cannot be that sense of relief. Ultimately, the thickened skin leaves you numb, incapable of feeling the highs and lows of life. It leaves you rough like a rock and just as inanimate. Michael Soll
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You're insane! " she shouted." Pretty cool, huh?"" No! " Tally yelled. "Why didn't you tell me it was broken?" Shay shrugged. "More fun that way?"" More fun?" Her heart beating fast, her vision strangely clear. She was full of anger and relief and...joy." Well, kind of. But you suck! Scott Westerfeld
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The best thing–in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing–about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it. Neil Gaiman
The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief...
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The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness. Samuel Beckett
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She had almost felt relieved when she was arrested. The thing she had dreaded, feared, run from had happened. When it came, she was strangely liberated from the fear. She couldn't dread what had already come to pass. She didn't have to anticipate the horror when the horror was right there. With her arrest came a certain calm, a quiet comfort. It had come. She had known it would and she could stop fighting. Amy Harmon
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In the midst of aches in the joints, anxiety over the payment of bills, concern for the safety of those you love, envy of the rich, fear of robbers, dog-weariness at the end of a long day, and the unacceptable slipping away of youth, there does occasionally appear, like a ray of light piercing the clouds, a moment of joy. Perhaps you have entered the house and sat down before removing your boots. A friend has pressed a drink into your hands, and is telling you the latest news. You see from his face that he's glad you've come in; and you are glad too. Glad to be sitting down, glad of the warming glow of the dirnk, glad of your friend's furrowed brow and eager speech. For this moment, nothing more is required. It is in its way unimprovable. This is what I mean by the Great Enough. William Nicholson
I am not a fan of sealed up sterile homes...
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I am not a fan of sealed up sterile homes or Faraday cages and their use in human health, although I do understand that some people do feel relief in these environments. Steven Magee
Relief is a great feeling. It’s the emotional and physical...
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Relief is a great feeling. It’s the emotional and physical reward we receive from our bodies upon alleviation of pain, pressure and struggle. A time to bask in the lack of the neg Vera Nazarian
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Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see that you're the prettiest girl in the vicinity and feel a huge sense of relief that there's no one to take the attention away from you. (Female competition is a result of women feeling like their greatest sense of self worth , identity and influence comes from their sexual appeal to men. Many women don't even realise they are feeling this way and it's a subconscious thing, but they notice themselves getting jealous when they see other women who they think men would find sexually appealing.) . Miya Yamanouchi
Crying relieves pressure on soul.
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Crying relieves pressure on soul. Toba Beta
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And as he reached for William's leg, the way a small child will reach for its mother's, there welled up through a small hole in the bottom of Mercer's soul a relief surpassing any he'd ever known in waking life. Garth Risk Hallberg
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I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'mIndebted to rest respecting it truly Criss Jami
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If your monetary wealth accumulates naturally and spontaneously, then let it accumulate, but do not lean on it for support. You may take its support and feel a sense of relief, but there is no telling when that support will move away. Therefore, conduct yourself with caution from the beginning so that you are not shaken up during time of painful experiences. Dada Bhagwan
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Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath. Unknown
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Arin, are you all right?"" How?" He managed. "How did her arm break?"" She fell of a ladder." He must have visibly relaxed, because his cousin raised her brows and looked ready to scold. "I imagined something worse, " he tried to explain. She appeared to understand his relief that pain, if it had to come, came this time without malice. Just and accident. Done by no one. The luck, sometimes of life. A bad slip that ends with bread, and someone to bind you. Marie Rutkoski
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Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have developed mechanisms to deal with these pains, to overcome them somehow. Therapy, religion and spirituality, relationships, material success. All this can work, but also become a problem itself. The pursuit of happiness has even been put into the American constitution a couple centuries ago. Today we're so rich, we own much more than we need, we have liberties unknown before, even though they are endangered in the current political climate in the US - and we forget how wonderful it nevertheless is, compared to most other political and economic systems. We have a saying that goes: Give a man enough rope and he hangs himself. . David Foster Wallace
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Some pain has no relief, it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed. Munia Khan
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Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you. Israelmore Ayivor
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Ileni swallowed hard. "Yes, " she said. "I am. But it's all going to be the same, for a very long time. The sorcerers will have all the power, and the assassins will eventually regather and start attacking again.. and I haven't made any difference at all."" Well, " Evin said, "I think you've made quite a bit of difference to the people whose lives you saved. Speaking as one of them." She stepped away from the edge, closer to him. "Do you regret it?" he asked evenly. His face was half-shadowed, but his eyes were bright and piercing. Not wide with pain and devoid of hope. She felt again his hand, limp and helpless in hers. Felt it tighten as Sorin plummeted past the gray rock. "No, " she said. And for at least that moment, it was entirely true. Leah Cypess
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Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation. Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
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The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea shield us from the raging furies and shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, creating an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world. ("Voices of the sea" ) . Erik Pevernagie
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I worked hard as [fuck] to get here. Jackson Lanzing
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There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage. Kristen Henderson
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Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Joy comes when you turn it over to God to deal with. This is when you will feel the true release from it's weight. Shannon L. Alder
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The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you’ll find. Stanley Victor Paskavich
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A disruption of the circadian cycle–the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life–seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief. William Styron
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Because this, as it turned out, was her destiny. Not to be the powerful sorceress her people had been waiting for , not to to be the ruthless killer the assassins needed. Her destiny was to save one person at a time, change things one tiny step after another. It still hurt, a tinge of loss. Her life wouldn't be grand, or dramatic, or momentous. There would be no great choices to make, no moments when everything would change. It would make a dull story if she was ever called upon to tell it. It hurt, yes. But it was also something of a relief. Leah Cypess
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Believe in yourself and relief yourself of the undue anxiety of feelings of incompetency. Leave worry aside and live with the hope that your dominion is not determined by people’s negative opinions! Israelmore Ayivor
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It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps–” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need–” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines. Jasinda Wilder
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr Mark Twain
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I wish that the last breath of your life is a sigh of relief. Saleem Sharma
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It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief Jojo Moyes
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...that breath of relief that there is someone in the world, finally, who understands what hurts you. Lysley Tenorio
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It's late at night when the memory comes for me, like it always seems to when the relief of sleep seems ready to draw me under. Joaquin Lowe
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Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed..to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight..[ We] ought to show peculiar zeal..in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure operations of mechanical arts. Bernardino Ramazzini
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Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while. Ben Marcus
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If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life. Bryant McGill
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...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer. Thomas Sydenham
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We begin to realize that it will take something more powerful than we are to relieve our suffering. This is what we’ve been missing all along — a source of hope. Marta Mrotek
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She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in the months before her death, to be completely healed. Death is the price for rebirth. Death. Who would have thought it would come with such great joy? Yet, after long years battling illness, death is suddenly more than welcome. Victoria Kahler
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God only knows the torment of the suffering soul and only he can take away the pain. Timothy W. Tron
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Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questions of moral entitlement. (And how absurd.) His one concern should be whether self-execution will most expediently relieve his suffering. Antonella GambottoBurke
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Your partner may have injuries that you can't repair. Your partner may be trapped in a dark room without windows. Your life narrative might bring him more relief than an opiate. Some people make better windows than windows. Your kind words and enlightened perspective is a window of wonders to someone living in pain.pg 43 Michael Ben Zehabe
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Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. Peter A. Levine
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You can let go of all that stuff you thought was real when you know it's just a game. What a relief, what a state of grace that brings. Jay Woodman
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Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. "He needs a Band-Aid, " I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding, love – Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me. James Patterson
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My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover. Anne Giardini
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Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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I have only one way to blow the steam off, i make money, you spend money thats funny, now i'm smilling like thats honey:) Mohlalefi J Motsima
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He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me. Rebecca Donovan
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Modern Christianity, in dramatic reversal of its biblical form, promises to relieve the pain of living in a fallen world. Then message, whether it’s from fundamentalists requiring us to live by a favored set of rules or from charismatics urging a deeper surrender to the Spirit’s power, is too often the same: The promise of bliss is for now! Complete satisfaction can be ours this side of heaven. Some speak of the joys of fellowship and obedience, others of a rich awareness of their value and worth. The language may be reassuringly biblical or it may reflect the influence of current psychological thought. Either way, the point of living the Christian life has shifted from knowing and serving Christ till He returns to soothing, or at least learning to ignore, the ache in our soul. Larry Crabb
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He presented justice as a psychological relief. Jill Leovy
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He presented justice as a psychological relief... Jill Leovy
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Rejecting sin is not a burden; on the contrary, it brings freedom and relief. Sunday Adelaja
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RYLAN! "The yell comes out of nowhere and nearly gives me a heart attack. Tearing my eyes away, I watch as Babette comes crashing through the undergrowth. With no regard that I might be severely injured, she bounds over and grabs me in a bear hug." Rylan! Oh my God, Rylan, " Babette whimpers. She gently rocks me like I'm five years old again. There are some more footsteps, and Aidan and Nadia soon appear. Relief fills both their faces, with Nadia crying happily on Aidan's shoulder. Just as I think she's going to crush me, Babette finally pulls back, her face shiny with tears. "Rylan, I thought I'd lost you. I thought I was never going to see you again. I–"I hold up a hand. "Babette, it's okay. I'm alive. Not perfect, but I'm alive." I gesture to my leg." Holy crap! " the twins say together, staring at my leg in horror and disgust. It only takes one glance for Nadia to really start sobbing. "Nadia! Nadia..don't cry, " I murmur in an attempt to comfort her. Since she's such a happy person most of the time it hurts to see her like this. "It'll heal up. It's fine."" B-but it-it's horrible! You near-nearly drowned an-and now you're hurt! " Aidan pulls her into an awkward hug, trying to calm her down. Colleen Boyd
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There’s no magical healing in this. I won’t wake up tomorrow fixed and joyful. I’ll still hurt and grieve. But moments like this, with Colton? They make it all bearable. He doesn't fix me, doesn't heal me. He just makes life worthwhile. He helps me remember to breathe, shows me how to smile again. He kisses me, and I can forget pain, forget the urges I still have to cut for the pain that erases the emotions. Jasinda Wilder
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Communication is like a pressure relief valve for your body. When a little pressure gets cooked up inside and needs to be released, you can gently turn the nozzle and release it slowly and gracefully until you feel better, by way of a productive conversation. But if you choose to ignore the warning signals and leave that pressure inside, it's going to grow and inevitably explode and make a mess, by way of an overreaction and possibly an argument. L.K. Elliott
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As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it. Douglas Adams
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So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief; Verily, with every difficulty there is relief. Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard, And to thy Lord turn [all] thy attention. Anonymous
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Truly there are different kinds of pain.  But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy. Richelle E. Goodrich
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... beginnings are always reserved for anxiety, middles are for experience, problems and troubleshooting, and only once the beginning and middle have been combined to form a past can room be made for the ending, and relief. Tania Aebi
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For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his fantasies by expressing them. Instead, by some perverse logic of creation, the act of formal expressions may simply make the dredged-up material more readily available to him. Unknown
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Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal. R.C. RobertsonGlasgow
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Some of you may feel that if you don't do something soon to change your life, you will be left by the roadside, alone, homeless and in despair. But is the despair not there as you reach and grapple to create or manifest your desires through your own effort and will? What happens if or when those things appear in your life? Joy? Peace? Or a temporary sense of relief? What if it is relief from the wanting you have been craving for so long, not the outcome, but the relief from the constant wanting. Unknown
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At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds. Kelseyleigh Reber
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What agony he suffered as he watched that light, in whose golden atmosphere were moving, behind the closed sash, the unseen and detested pair, as he listened to that murmur which revealed the presence of the man who had crept in after his own departure, the perfidy of Odette, and the pleasures which she was at that moment tasting with the stranger. And yet he was not sorry that he had come; the torment which had forced him to leave his own house had lost its sharpness when it lost its uncertainty, now that Odette's other life, of which he had had, at that first moment, a sudden helpless suspicion, was definitely there, almost within his grasp, before his eyes, in the full glare of the lamp-light, caught and kept there, an unwitting prisoner, in that room into which, when he would, he might force his way to surprise and seize it; or rather he would tap upon the shutters, as he had often done when he had come there very late, and by that signal Odette would at least learn that he knew, that he had seen the light and had heard the voices; while he himself, who a moment ago had been picturing her as laughing at him, as sharing with that other the knowledge of how effectively he had been tricked, now it was he that saw them, confident and persistent in their error, tricked and trapped by none other than himself, whom they believed to be a mile away, but who was there, in person, there with a plan, there with the knowledge that he was going, in another minute, to tap upon the shutter. And, perhaps, what he felt (almost an agreeable feeling) at that moment was something more than relief at the solution of a doubt, at the soothing of a pain; was an intellectual pleasure. Marcel Proust
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LeavingHe stood backlitby windows full of winter, a shade thrown over his face. What a waste, I thought. What relief. Jameson Fitzpatrick
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The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about. S.A. Tawks
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Hey, S.T., " Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. "You want to know something?" I still can't look up. But I nod." It's not your fault either." She says this like it's not big deal. Like it's nothing. But it's everything. Patricia McCormick
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Perhaps all pleasure in only relief William S. Burroughs
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To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day. Anne McCaffrey
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Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to po or suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to--this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favourably on the morality of the country? Jane Welsh Carlyle
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I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. Winston S. Churchill
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I finally made eye contact with the boy in the bed. He lay on his side, a tube in his nose and another in his vein. His cheeks were sunken, and his skin was ghostly pale. His hair might have been blond, but it was fading into a gray, making it hard to tell. The only part of this boy that held any life at all were his eyes, which brimmed with tears when he saw me.“ Kahlen?” I sat still. These three people all called me by the same name, which sounded sort of like Katlyn and Ellen and made me believe that maybe they actually knew me.“ Where did you go? Where have you been? I thought you were dead.” His chest worked overtime, trying to keep up with his mouth, spilling over with words.“ Can you get her a pen? Please?” He lifted an arm weakly. It was all bone. “I just need to know.”“ A pen?” I asked. Once again his eyes lit up.“ You can talk?” I stared at this boy, at how he was overjoyed at one of the most basic things a person could do. “So it would seem.” I smiled. He flopped onto his back, laughing from his gut, and based on Julie’s tears, I was guessing she’d been waiting a long time for that to come back. Kiera Cass