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Relief Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary and the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.”

Ivan Turgenev

2. “Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that’s what foreclosure is.”

J.P. Morgan

3. “There is nothing more liberating than being debt free. That you owe nothing to anyone else. And I don't just don't mean money. I mean, everything!”

Ankur Warikoo

4. “The most important thing is that we need to be understood. We need someone to be able to listen to us and to understand us. Then we will suffer less.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

5. “You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

6. “The basis of successful relief in national distress is to mobilize and organize the infinite number of agencies of self-help in the community. That has been the American way.”

Herbert Hoover

7. “Divine is the task to relieve pain.”

Hippocrates

8. “Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.”

Hippocrates

9. “Rest as soon as there is pain.”

Hippocrates

10. “When trouble ends even troubles please.”

Sophocles

11. “Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.”

Sophocles

12. “It is always fair sailing, when you escape evil.”

Sophocles

13. “Sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.”

Sophocles

14. “Relief from something that you cannot hold within you is always the greatest pleasure, isn’t it? Whatever that thing may be!”

Sadhguru

15. “Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.”

Chuck Palahniuk

16. “A canter is the cure for all evil.”

Benjamin Disraeli

17. “A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.”

Francis Bacon

18. “When pressure builds up, don’t panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.”

Rick Warren

19. “Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.”

Ram Dass

20. “Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, ‘Farmers, you are in a hole. I can’t help you, but I will get in with you.’ He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.”

Will Rogers

21. “Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”

Nepolian Bonaparte

22. “A college joke to cure the dumps.”

Jonathan Swift

23. “When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.”

Jonathan Swift

24. “I had been for some hours extremely pressed by the necessities of nature; which was no wonder, it being almost two days since I had last disburdened myself. I was under great difficulties between urgency and shame. The best expedient I could think of, was to creep into my house, which I accordingly did; and shutting the gate after me, I went as far as the length of my chain would suffer, and discharged my body of that uneasy load.”

Jonathan Swift

25. “My fear again waned low, since a natural phenomenon tends to dispel broodings over the unknown.”

H.P. Lovecraft

26. “Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn.”

H.P. Lovecraft

27. “Death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories.”

H.P. Lovecraft

28. “You'll be glad too, when the end comes.”

Agatha Christie

29. “Stepping out into the world, into the grass, onto the path, was always a kind of relief. I was not escaping anything. I was returning to the arena of delight.”

Mary Oliver

30. “The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.”

James Madison

31. “I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.”

Neil Gaiman

32. “The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.”

John Grisham

33. “Happiness is the relief after extreme tension.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

34. “Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.”

Thomas Jefferson

35. “Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.”

Orson Scott Card

36. “You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to God your tears are shed, You who Weep!”

Alexandre Dumas

37. “What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one’s self?”

Henry James

38. “How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.”

Charles Baudelaire

39. “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”

Sylvia Plath

40. “All the heat and fear purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”

Sylvia Plath

41. “Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

George Eliot

42. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.”

Daniel Goleman

43. “I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

44. “Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.”

Charles Bukowski

45. “The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”

Charles Bukowski

46. “Nothing like a little judicious levity.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

47. “People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.”

Carl Jung