Quotes About Respite

We have all known it: even when closed in, the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar. Through walls and windows we receive the tremors of the time; you might win a moment's respite, but you cannot withdraw completely from the world.

In the middle of the afternoon, when the heat was at its worst, having accumulated around the concrete since early in the morning, I had ten minutes or so of respite in my tiny office. The walls there were blistering. I could scarcely breathe. But I fled there as if it had been a cool, wet, autumn day inside. I was not looking for relief from the heat so much as relief from the crowds. They licked away my being with their idiot tongues.

Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

let me forget about today until tomorrow

The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.

I crawled into his lap, sighing happily when he shifted me into a spot that felt made for me. Every peaceful moment we had with each other was treasured. Gideon deserved the respite, and I longed to be that for him. His lips touched my forehead. "You okay, angel mine?" "I'm in your arms. Life doesn't get better than this.

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

I thought of crawling in between the bed sheets and trying to sleep, but that appealed to me about as much as stuffing a dirty, scrawled-over letter into a fresh, clean envelope. I decided to take a hot bath. There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.

Real life's only bearable if you don't have to live in it all the time

In January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics.

I have to thank you...because you have so often helped me forget the evils of today.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

It's a beacon of hope in a dark world. You watch 'The Muppets' and you're smiling for an hour and a half, and then you go outside, and the economy is in crisis.

You're not losing me. I'm just going away for a while. I'll be Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Musical theater can save you, even if only for two or three hours at a time.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

Wouldn't it be a treat, Chaz thought, to have just one goddamn day when nobody fucked with my head?

Gürültüden kaçmak, kendini kitlenin uÄŸultusuna, o bir yanarda??nkini and?ran, yeralt?ndan gelen, hiç bitmeyecekmiÅŸ gibi aral?ks?z süren, tembel dalgalar halinde alana yay?lan uÄŸultuya kapamak için art?k hayattan kopar?l?rcas?na al?n?p götürülme düÅŸüncesi, hiç kuÅŸkusuz çekici gelen bir düÅŸünceydi;

She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill.

It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.