Temporary Relief Quotes:

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

topic: Relief, Violence, Hopelessness, Best Criminal Minds, Temporary Relief

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires.

- Dalai Lama

source: The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.36, Hachette UK

topic: Temporary Relief, Sensory

The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

- Ann Landers

topic: Real, People, Giving, Inhale, So Bored

His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

- Lev Grossman

source: Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.57, Penguin

topic: Crush, Depressing, Relief, Terminal, Temporary Relief

Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'

- Erasmus Darwin

source: Erasmus Darwin (1818). “Zoonomia”, p.330

topic: Pain, Together, Bears, Vehemence, Temporary Relief

Changing husbands is about as satisfactory as changing a bundle from one hand to the other; it gives you only temporary relief.

- Helen Rowland

source: Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.58, Lulu.com

topic: Husband, Hands, Giving, Temporary Relief

Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.

- Max Lucado

topic: Enemy, Relief, Hiding, Temporary Relief, Hiding Out

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

- Hope Mirrlees

source: Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.

topic: Giving, Drug, Poppies, Temporary Relief

The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which the mind has no enjoyment, and which only afford a temporary relief to languor by steeping the senses in forgetfulness; but in the precious pleasures of the intellect, so easily accessible by all mankind, the great have no exclusive privilege; for such enjoyments are only to be procured by our own industry.

- Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

topic: Mind, Relief, May, Exclusive, Temporary Relief