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Quotes About Rest

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
~ Chaka Khan
There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
~ Christopher Smart
There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
~ Esperanza Spalding
The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.
~ Fernando Pessoa
You've had a long working life As everyone knows You can now do nothing at all And then have a doze Enjoy Your Retirement
~ John Walter Bratton
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
~ Joseph Conrad
Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
~ Mason Cooley
When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.
~ Matt Smith
When there is a psyche-disrupting event in your life, it can prevent you from getting the long blocks of sleep at night that are so important to healthy aging.
~ Mehmet Oz
In the intervals between battles, the Warrior rests.
~ Paulo Coelho
Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.
~ Robert Collyer
Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains
~ Stephen R. Donaldson
Carlos was probably somewhere warm, eating three meals a day, and sleeping in a real bed. That was the life
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
Only through struggle, have I found rest.
~ Tim Lambesis
Laziness works. And the simple way to incorporate its health benefits into your life is simply to take a nap.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
The Bible nowhere states that people before the law observed the Sabbath as a day of rest or worship.
~ David K. Bernard
Let's begin by taking a smallish nap or two.
~ A. A. Milne
Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.
~ Robert Schumann
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.
~ Roger Zelazny
Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.
~ Mark Lawrence
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
~ Dylan Thomas
Let him find no rest but be fathered and found, I prayed in the crouching room, by his blind bed, In the muted house, one minute before Noon, and night, and light. The rivers of the dead Veined his poor hand I held, and I saw Through his faded eyes to the roots of the sea. Go calm to your crucifixed hill, I told The air that drew away from him.
~ Dylan Thomas
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
~ E. V. Lucas