It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.
Who can take away suffering without entering it?
In 'Growing Stronger,' I expose my most painful moments and open my heart, thoughts and person, so that my experiences can inspire alleviation, consolation and decisiveness.
Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.
Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.
The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering...
Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
It is some alleviation to ills we cannot cure to speak of them.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
O sweet solace of labors. [Lat., O laborum Dulce lenimen.]
