Palliative Quotes

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. (Peter De Vries)
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods. View quote
Fay Weldon
The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd. View quote
Theodor Mommsen
If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. View quote
Ann Druyan
Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh. View quote
Judy Gold
I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing. View quote
Kate Middleton
I will not give you an elegy - words to stir your hearts as our beloved Gaelic slowly fades away. And I will not be prescribing palliative care. View quote
Alex Salmond
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success. View quote
Steven Weber
Music brought me closer to the idea of God...Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief. (Carly Simon)
Life as we find it, is too hard for us it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it, we cannot dispense with palliative measuresThere are three such measures powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery substitute satisfactions, which diminish it and intoxicating substances which make us insensitive to it. View quote
Sigmund Freud