Quotes About Alleviation

My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

we know that every alleviation, however slight, of the wretchedness of our great cities is followed by a very considerable diminution of crime;

We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

Surplus RBI reserves can be used for poverty alleviation.

Love is the first ingredient in the relief of suffering.

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

the process of writing is always a healing process because the function of creation is always, always, the alleviation of pain—the writer's, first of all, and then the pain of those who read what she has written. Imagination is compassionate. Writing is a form of making, and making humanizes the world.1

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

to ease the drain on the food supplies.

I think that on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders talks about income inequality and poverty alleviation, and those issues are so important.

The people are suffering. Relieving people's poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

Grandchildren by proxy, Cadfael reflected, might be a rare and pleasurable recompense for a celibate prime. As for old age, he had not yet begun to think about it; no doubt it had its own alleviations.

There are three things that make me want to drink: difficult times, when I want alcohol to either alleviate the pain or allow me to feel it; clear days that make me want to scribble all over the irritating blue sky; and well, waking up in the morning.

Life is absurd. But there is one meaningful thing, one inarguable thing, and that is that there is suffering. Fine writing helps alleviate that suffering – and anything that puts meaning and beauty into the world in the form of story, helps people to live with more peace and purpose and balance, is deeply worthwhile.

To Rockefeller, the least imaginative use of money was to give it to people outright instead of delving into the causes of human misery.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

These symptoms could be alleviated best, he learned, by encouraging soldiers to confront the frightening memories and make some kind of peace with them.