Top Relief Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Relief quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Benjamin Moser
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and shows, in this discomfiting, hypnotic work, just how rarely those categories are what they seem. The translation is excellent - what a rare relief.
- Benjamin Moser
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Image of Kim Hyun-joong
When I was diagnosed with swine flu, it was a big relief that Young Saeng was with me. When everyone wouldn't eat with me, Young Saeng was the only one who ate stuff like curry with me.
- Kim Hyun-joong
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Image of John Mulaney
In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.
- John Mulaney
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Image of Neko Case
I'm too small for the universe to revolve around me. It is a huge relief!
- Neko Case
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Image of Barbara Brown Taylor
When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget to look for the holiness all around me, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget why the gospel matters, I read Frederick Buechner.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
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Image of David Crystal
Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism
- David Crystal
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Image of Mark Kostabi
Things don't get tough in the studio. Sometimes things get tough outside the studio and going in the studio is a relief, a sanctuary, therapy.
- Mark Kostabi
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Image of Tama J. Kieves
WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.
- Tama J. Kieves
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Image of Vince Gilligan
Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.
- Vince Gilligan
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Image of Whitey Herzog
We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
- Whitey Herzog
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Image of Philippe Falardeau
I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.
- Philippe Falardeau
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Image of Rowan Blanchard
I genuinely love to be by myself, but at the same time, it's such a relief to know that I have another person's head who I can go into and whose life I can live. It's kind of an escape route, almost like therapy. It's refreshing to know that I can go back to a place where I don't have to be myself.
- Rowan Blanchard
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Image of Dawn Johnsen
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
- Dawn Johnsen
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Image of Elaine Equi
I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.
- Elaine Equi
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Image of Bette Ford
I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.
- Bette Ford
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Image of Michelangelo
In my opinion painting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.
- Michelangelo
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Image of Rumi
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
- Rumi
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Image of Meg Whitman
In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon.
- Meg Whitman
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Image of Richard Whately
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want.
- Richard Whately
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Image of Ann Brashares
Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible
- Ann Brashares
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Image of Julie Anne Peters
What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.
- Julie Anne Peters
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Image of Orhan Pamuk
It's a great relief for me that no one will ask me anymore: "Orhan, when will you get the Nobel Prize?"
- Orhan Pamuk
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Image of Linus Torvalds
It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.
- Linus Torvalds
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Image of Mary Roberts Rinehart
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
- Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Image of Kurt Vonnegut
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
- Kurt Vonnegut
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Image of Liane Moriarty
Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.
- Liane Moriarty
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Image of Jim Butcher
My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.
- Jim Butcher
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Image of B.K.S. Iyengar
The back is like a frame, the front body, the painting that it throws into relief.
- B.K.S. Iyengar
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Image of John Hurt
It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.
- John Hurt
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Image of John Flavel
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy
- John Flavel
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Image of Tahereh Mafi
Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
- Tahereh Mafi
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Image of Eddie Griffin
We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.
- Eddie Griffin
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Image of Lana Del Rey
It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die.
- Lana Del Rey
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Image of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Happiness is the relief after extreme tension
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Image of Boonaa Mohammed
At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.
- Boonaa Mohammed
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Image of William Hazlitt
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
- William Hazlitt
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Image of Nhat Hanh
Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief.
- Nhat Hanh
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Image of Ernest Hemingway
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
- Ernest Hemingway
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Image of Kim Harrison
Relief spilled into me. He wanted to live. He just didn't know how.
- Kim Harrison
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Image of David Ayer
When I make a movie, it's almost a relief to get shooting 'cause the hell is over, or part of the hell is over.
- David Ayer
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Image of Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.
- Nhat Hanh
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Image of Daniel Handler
They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.
- Daniel Handler
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Image of Thomas Jefferson
Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Image of Stephen King
Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.
- Stephen King
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Image of Robin McKinley
He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if he could hold off the Notherners for nine days and melt a hole in the hills.
- Robin McKinley
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