“It wouldn’t last, of course. I had no illusions on that score. But while it did, I meant to relish every moment… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
In India, there's so much strife, pain and trouble that song, dance and going to the movies is respite. — Javed Jaffrey Copy Share Image
Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life. — Fernando Botero Copy Share Image
We have to use our freedoms and privileges to see what respite we can give to those less equipped to deal with… — Chloe Hooper Copy Share Image
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. — Jill Vialet Copy Share Image
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. — Cullen Hightower Copy Share Image
Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“A new story begins the moment an old one ends. But a denouement is a respite that calls us to stop the… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
Tide flowing is feared, for many a thing, Great danger to such as be sick, it doth bring; Sea ebb, by long… — Thomas Tusser Copy Share Image
- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits,… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death;… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The candle flame is too hot. It flickers and dances in the over-warm breeze, a breeze that brings no respite from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. — Robert Haven Schauffler Copy Share Image
What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“Illness was a temporary respite, a release from the demands of an alienating world.” — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach,… — Robert Knepper Copy Share Image
“The first week at August's was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Forgive and forget is the divine ideal. Grappling with the hurt while biting your tongue and struggling to refuse justifiable vengeance―that's closer… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Without a doubt, the warming of the past 100 years has been a welcome respite from a long and deadly Little Ice… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
I do not wish to grow old, to outlive my illusions. Only a short respite from cares and sorrow, a brief time… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
“Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. —ROBERT… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
