
“Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
A collection of quotes on the topic of relief, use, likeness, people.
“Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Source: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 3
Context: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. When you have a hundred francs in the world you are liable to the most craven panics. When you have only three francs you are quite indifferent; for three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that. You are bored, but you are not afraid. You think vaguely, 'I shall be starving in a day or two--shocking, isn't it?' And then the mind wanders to other topics. A bread and margarine diet does, to some extent, provide its own anodyne. And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs--and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.
Stuttgart. After 8th September 1831.
Source: "Selected Correspondence Of Fryderyk Chopin"; http://archive.org/stream/selectedcorrespo002644mbp/selectedcorrespo002644mbp_djvu.txt
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter
Quoted by Masiela Lusha in a 2009 press conference http://www.masielalusha.com/board.php
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
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Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
Já me desenganei que de queixar-me
não se alcança remédio; mas, quem pena,
forçado lhe é gritar, se a dor é grande.
Gritarei; mas é débil e pequena
a voz para poder desabafar-me,
porque nem com gritar a dor se abrande.
"Vinde cá, meu tão certo secretário", trans. by Landeg White in The Collected Lyric Poems of Luis de Camoes (2016), p. 297
Lyric poetry, Hymns (canções)
8. Psychotherapy and Social Welfare
Love and Power: The Psychology of Interpersonal Creativity (1966)
Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, " Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html" (1997)
1870s, Speech before the Pole-Bearers Association (1875)
General Security: The Liquidation of Opium (1925)
“My idea of Comic Relief is switching Victoria Wood off.”
The Pall-Bearer's Revue (1992)
"The Distracted Public" (1990)
It All Adds Up (1994)
“The glories, trumpets, palms… and low reliefs,… all that makes a monument.”
Les gloires, les trompettes, les palmes... et les bas-reliefs,... tout cela fait un monument.
Picasso (1952). Quoted in: Michael D. Garval (2004), "A Dream of Stone": Fame, Vision, and Monumentality in Nineteenth-century French Literary Culture. p. 226.
Picasso commented on the matter of the monument destruction in Paris.
Quotes, 1950's
"Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction", Californian 3, No. 3 (Winter 1935): 39-42. Published in Collected Essays, Volume 2: Literary Criticism edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 178
Non-Fiction
The Satanic Bible (1969)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Back to Godhead article by Bhaktivedanta Swami, April 20, 1956. Vanipedia http://vanisource.org/wiki/1956_Back_to_Godhead_vol_3_part_04_-_Godless_Creation
Quotes from other Sources, Quotes from other Sources: False Prophecies
Comments at a campaign rally in Tampa; Florida (20 October 2008) http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2008/10/20/394027.html
2008
The New Divinity (1964)
Context: God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about.... To say that God is ultimate reality is just semantic cheating, as well as being so vague as to become effectively meaningless... Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief. Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct some thing to take its place.
Letter to Fanny McCullough (23 December 1862); Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler
1860s
Context: In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”
First lines.
Source: Middlemarch (1871)
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It's a relief.”
Source: Gone Girl
Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
As quoted in Katherine Mansfield : A Biography (1953) by Antony Alpers, p. 266
Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
Early career years (1898–1929)
Source: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter III.
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
Source: Rococo
Three Steps to Yes: The Gentle Art of Getting Your Way
—H. L. Mencken O
Source: Kitchen
“I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy”
Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Source: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
Source: Hunger Point
Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper
Republished on The Journey Home website.
The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami (Tulsi Books, 2010)
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 22 (p. 226)
“Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration. Communities want relief.”
2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)
Samuelson (1985; p, 6) as cited in: Klein, Daniel B., and Ryan Daza. " Paul A. Samuelson (Ideological Profiles of the Economics Laureates). http://econjwatch.org/file_download/767/schultzipel.pdf" Econ Journal Watch 10.3 (2013): 561-569.
1980s–1990s
Harsh Narain, Myths of Composite Culture and Equality of Religions (1990)
Speech in the House of Lords (23 November 1819). The Speech from the Throne at the opening of the session of 1819-20 called for strong measures against the seditious spirit shown in the manufacturing districts. Grey moved an amendment in the Lords, calling for an enquiry into the Peterloo Massacre of 16 August, in order to maintain ‘that confidence in the public institutions of the country, which constitutes the best safeguard of all law and government.’ His amendment was defeated by 159 votes to 34. Parliamentary Debates, vol. xli, pp. 7-19, quoted in Alan Bullock and Maurice Shock (ed.), The Liberal Tradition from Fox to Keynes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), pp. 5-6.
1810s
2000s, 2001, Radio Address to the Nation (February 2001)
Source: Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth his Pleasure there Passed, Line 51.
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 164)
Give It Up for Comic Relief
Responding to the question, "what did the United States have to gain by intervening in Somalia?", regarding Operation Provide Relief/Operation Restore Hope/Battle of Mogadishu.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999, Sovereignty and World Order, 1999
On the theme of water.
Music is a Prayer:An interview with Hariprasad Chaurasia by Ian Gottstein
Epilogue - Cannon Beach
The Lonely Dead (2004)
Rusbridger (2000) " Versions of seriousness http://www.theguardian.com/dumb/story/0,7369,391891,00.html", The Guardian. 4 November 2000: Cited in: Raymond Boyle (2006) Sports Journalism: Context and Issues. p. 11
According to Boyle 2006 Rusbridger argued that "changes in the broadsheet press simply reflects wider cultural shift in taste and the breaking down of areas of supposedly high and low culture."
2000s