I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final - and even then I hope for a reprieve.
When you commit your life to something and it doesn't work out, it is a tough place to be. Suicide can be the spiritual reprieve of a faithless person. I knew I could always just end it, and there was solace in that.
Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
Because without such a reprieve we cannot pause and regroup and with the newfound strength go on to initiate that very change which is sorely needed by all.
One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.
Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
