To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.