Brief Respite Quotes
- Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches. — Marcel Proust
- Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production… — Graham Hancock
- Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose. — Jill Vialet
- Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness… — Guillermo del Toro
- I only know that a rook Ordering its black feathers can so shine As to seize me senses, haul My eyelids up, and grant A… — Sylvia Plath