Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le reme'  de. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every16 hours.It's a palliative. Death is the remedy.

-Chamfort, Se¤  bastien-Roch Nicolas
Maximes et Pense¤  es (1795), ch.2.

HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villagesölocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backöso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.

-Coupland, Douglas
Generation X,'Our Parents Had More'.

But where dothey find these lines innature? Personally I only see forms that are lit up and forms that are not, planes which advance and planes which recede, relief and depth. My eye never sees outlines or particular features ordetails.I donot count thehairs in the beard of the man who passes byany more than the buttonholes on his jacket attract my notice. My brush should not see better than I do.

-Goya, Francisco de
Quoted in Enriqueta Harris Goya (1969).

  The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight.You have to do that cold.But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. 394

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Of whisky. Letter to Ivan Kashkin,19  Aug.

There is a certainrelief in change, even though it be from bad toworse† Ihave oftenfound intravelling ina stage- coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

-Irving,Washington
  Tales of a Traveller,'To the Reader'.

Inmyopinionpainting should be considered excellent in proportion as it approaches the effect of relief, while relief should be considered bad in proportion as it approaches the effect of painting.

-Michelangelo full name Michelangelo Buonarroti
Quoted in Robert  J Clements (ed) Michelangelo:  A Self-Portrait (1968).

I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.

-Rich, Adrienne Cecile
TheWill to Change,'Planetarium'.

There are compensations for growing older.One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

-Skinner, Cornelia Otis
Attributed.