Respite Quotes - Page 3

• The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.

  Plato

  Real, Race, Cities

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• Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Get Well, Cutting

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1957). “Hadrian's Memoirs”

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• The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Opposites, Balance

  "George Carlin: The Lost Interview". Interview with Rick Cusick, standard-progress.com. June 27, 2018.

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• I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

  Tim Winton

  Art, War, Book

  Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• Henceforth we will tackle our enemies that come face to face with us and we will not be stabbed in from behind by internal foes. To this end, we will arm the allies and comrades of the broad masses without giving respite to reactionaries, and avenge the blood of our comrades double - and triple - fold.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Blood, Giving, Enemy

  "Red Tears: War, Famine and Revolution in Ethiopia". Book by Dawit Wolde Giorgis, 1989.

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• What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

  Slavoj Žižek

  What If, Culture, Break

  Slavoj Žižek, Slavoj Zizek (2011). “Living in the End Times”, p.6, Verso

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• When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

  George Eliot

  Life, Clouds, Imagination

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.259

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• At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.

  David Sheff

  Children, Husband, Wife

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite from life’s wretched absurdity. The magic of love is not that it contains all the answers, it’s that it eliminates the need for so many pressing questions. For love makes us feel like gods--and that’s what we’re really after, isn’t it?

  Jonathan Hull

  Powerful, Love Is, Magic

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.

  Jonathan Hull

  Monday, Tired, Fate

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Mean, Survival

  Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

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• For me, the idea of being a successful actor is hanging out with my dogs and my boy, down in Venice beach, and going, "I don't have to audition today. I've got a little respite here."

  Robert Knepper

  Dog, Beach, Successful

  Source: collider.com

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• Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up.

  Watchman Nee

  Emotional, Evil, Mind

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• I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death.  All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

  Corey Stoll

  Real, Believe, Paris

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• I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Compassion, Giving, World

  Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, January 1993.

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