Quotes About Respite

Distractions aren't just distractions. Sometimes, you need them to break the loop.

Salvation means that there is respite from whatever oppresses in the community that hears, and lives, this Gospel.

Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.

It's definitely a reason I game so much: to forget about the pressures of fighting and the hardships of training and everything.

At tea time, all the noise, greed and aggressiveness of the '80s can be drowned out. For 45 minutes, anyway.

In "misusing 6th Army Group," as one Army historian later charged, Eisenhower unwittingly gave the Germans a respite, allowing Hitler to continue assembling a secret counteroffensive aimed at the Ardennes in mid-December. Crossing the Rhine after Thanksgiving might well have complicated German planning for what soon would be known as the Battle of the Bulge.

When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

We colluded in this way: as long as I didn't announce that I was a kid, he wouldn't rise up as a parent, and for an hour, we could both have a little respite from our roles.

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another—which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.

And the tuberculosis old men At the Nelson wheeze and cough And someone will head south Until this whole thing cools off … —Tom Waits, "Small Change

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

The myth that the artist needs suffering to create tells the story the wrong way round... the song comes afterwards, not in the writhing of misery but in the recollection of that misery and the respite from it provided by the writing.

reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

Da, e lucru îngrozitor s? cazi în mâinile r?ului reîncarnat. - Atunci, întreab? doctorul Poole, de ce continuaÈ›i s?-L veneraÈ›i? - De ce arunci mâncare unui tigru care mâr?ie?Ca s? câÈ™tigi un moment de respiro. Ca s? amâni oroarea inevitabilului, fie È™i pentru câteva minute. ?i pe P?mânt e la fel ca-n Iad - dar cel puÈ›in eÈ™ti tot pe P?mânt.

Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.

It was a relief to inhabit someone else's life for a while, to get her personal issues for a brief respite. In a play, she knew exactly how all her character's problems would be resolved. No matter how the cast performed, the end turned out the same. No questions, no worries, no unknowns.

Bottoming can "turn off our brains" – giving us a quiet respite, in the endorphin high of pain play, the stillness of bondage, or the clarity of giving good service, from the day-to-day clutter and chatter of existence.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

The world that used to nurse us now keeps shouting inane instructions. That's why I ran to the woods.

Nothing was truly unbearable if you had something to read.