Relief Quotes - Page 2

Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human.

It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.

The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore... they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.

The first time I had sex, I didn't know what I was doing. It was a relief when the whole thing was over after just 45 minutes.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.

I hope that when the world comes to an end, I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I has a dream about reality. It was such a relief to wake up.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

I'm not a frustrated concert composer, and the concert pieces I've done have been a small part of my work. What I've sought there is instruction, variation from the demands of film and relief from its restrictions.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

. . . We love fog because it shifts old anomalies into the elements surrounding them. It gives relief from a way of seeing

At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

If you're doing a drama that has some comedic elements you can't forget that it's primarily a very serious film that has some light relief.

The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.

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 when a paradox dissolves.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

It is from your hands that Our Lord, in the person of the sick, seeks relief.