Relief Quotes
818 Relief quotes by 666 unique authors
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
— Julian Huxley
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It is my hope that I can stand before you in two years and report back that our side, as well as the president's, found…
— Eric Cantor
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Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.
— Primo Levi
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If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the…
— Henry Van Dyke
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The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs…
— Paul Fleischman
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I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion.…
— Unknown Author
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All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.
— Robert Frost
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately…
— Barack Obama
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The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.
— Julian Huxley
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School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.
— Katharine Hepburn
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Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.
— Unknown Author
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If I had to define life in a single phrase, I should clearly express my thought of throwing into relief one characteristic which, in my…
— Claude Bernard
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Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them…
— James M. Barrie
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By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou…
— John Owen
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I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Whether you create, or you observe an objective piece of creativity, meditation should be the key. Without it, mind can only spread on the canvas…
— Rajneesh
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Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.
— Unknown Author
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I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and…
— Albert Hofmann
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A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. All…
— Gabor Mate
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It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
— Gabor Mate
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On his daughter, Ava: She is a relief from all the stress in my life; everyday she does something new and it is so amazing.
— Ryan Phillippe
Who Wrote These Relief Quotes
666 authors contributed a total of 818 Relief Quotes, led by these top contributors: