A bitter drug oft brings relief.

“But it’s mostly the act itself that brings relief, the self-forgetfulness, the diving and plunging into other lives.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

— Hugo Grotius

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

— Ovid

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

— Ovid

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

— Ovid

As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most…

— Bill Frist

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.

— Benjamin Hoff

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never…

— Edmund Burke

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and…

— Mark Twain

When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,…

— Maile Meloy

My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their…

— Amy Chua

Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I…

— Ichiro Suzuki

“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough