Alleviate Quotes

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

“The prime goal is to alleviate suffering and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering but only prolongs life that treatment should be stopped.”

“Leaders should never alienate themselves from the poor, if their main aim is to alleviate poverty.”

“Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over the external world, to alleviate suffering, or to prolong life, is ultimately a matter of feeling, or rather, of desire-the desire to know or the desire to realize.”

“That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the creative life is somehow self-indulgent. Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. William Carlos Williams said, "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there." You can't eat a book, right, but books have saved my life more often than sandwiches. And they've saved your life... But we don't say, oh, Maya Angelou should have silenced herself because other people have other destinies. It's interesting, because artists are always encouraged to feel guilty about their work. Why? Why don't we ask predatory bankers how they alleviate their guilt? ”

“All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you.”

“Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.”

“I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.”

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”