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

  Lana Del Rey

  Want, Scared, Dies

  "Finding her future looking to the past" by Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2014.

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• Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

  William James

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.95, Harvard University Press

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• Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

  Jacques Barzun

  Men, Organization, Giving

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• The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.

  Thom Yorke

  Silly, America, Remember

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• Everybody wants life to speak to them with special kindness. Every personal story begs to be steered toward reverie, toward some relief from unpleasant truths: That you are a self, that beyond anything else you want the best for that self. That, if it is to be you or someone else, you need it to be you, no matter what.

  Darin Strauss

  Kindness, Self, Special

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.57, Random House

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• 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

  Needs, Failing, Mercy

  John Flavel (2013). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.83, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

  William James

  Giving Up, Blessed, Deception

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

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Dream, Reality, Wake Up

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• Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Pain, Emotional, Air

  Adriana Trigiani (2005). “Rococo: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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• Dear Ones, Beware of the tiny gods frightened men Create To bring anesthetic relief to their sad days

  Hafez

  Wisdom, Islamic, Men

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• To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to some small star. Philosopher. Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd, Their light by hers relief might find; But Death will lead her to a shade Where Love is cold and Beauty blind. Lover. Lovers, whose priests all poets are, Think every mistress, when she dies, Is changed at least into a star: And who dares doubt the poet wise? Philosopher. But ask not bodies doom'd to die To what abode they go; Since Knowledge is but Sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

  William Davenant

  Life, Summer, Wise

  Sir William Davenant, “To A Mistress Dying”

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• Beyond the emotionalism and the obvious sense of relief on all sides, I think that there is a recognition that reality may intrude, that perhaps the steps ahead and the days ahead are going to be much more difficult than one expects.

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Reality, Thinking, May

  "World reacts to Mideast agreement". www.cnn.com. October 23, 1998.

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• The key is if the economic data stays soft, maybe we don't have to worry much about interest rates anymore. Then we need to worry about earnings. What gave us a really strong move in stock prices from late May until about two weeks ago was this heightened optimism that maybe interest rates are at that high. That gave you a relief rally. Now reality is setting in - if we've seen the worst on interest rates then we've seen the best on earnings.

  Douglas Cliggott

  Strong, Moving, Reality

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• I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

  Jo Brand

  Singing, Trying, Comedy

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• I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine can use the special website and find support and comfort.

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Children, Book, Rose

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• For action, whatever its immediate purpose, also implies relief at doing something, anything, and the joy of exertion. This is the optimism that is inherent in, and proper and indispensable to action, for without it nothing would ever be undertaken. It in no way suppresses the critical sense or clouds the judgment. On the contrary this optimism sharpens the wits, it creates a certain perspective and, at the last moment, lets in a ray of perpendicular light which illuminates all one's previous calculations, cuts and shuffles them and deals you the card of success, the winning number.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Cutting, Winning, Numbers

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• Consumers still buy products whose advertising promises them value for money, beauty, nutrition, relief from suffering, social status and so on.

  David Ogilvy

  Promise, Suffering, Nutrition

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• I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Hair, Desert, Waste

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• In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Depression, Believe

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• Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time, Feelings, Moments

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.50, Grove Press

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• In terms of, like, instant relief, canceling plans is like heroin.

  John Mulaney

  Introvert, Heroin, Term

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• Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

  Timothy Keller

  Prayer, Self, Giving

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• When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Lying, Giving

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Sick, Joy

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• 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.

  Leon Panetta

  Sea, Rising, Melting

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