Quotes About Rest

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong for ever,' she said. 'This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won't be a movement, because it will rest on the earth. All the signs are against it now, but I can't help hoping.

Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong forever . . . This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won't be a movement, because it will rest on the earth. All the signs are against it now, but I can't help hoping, and very early in the morning in the garden I feel that out house is the future as well as the past.

Once more the west was retreating, once again the orderly stars were dotting the eastern sky. There is certainly no rest for us on the earth. But there is happiness, and as Margaret descended the mound on her lover's arm, she felt that she was having her share.

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.

All, all, are sleeping on the hill.

Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.

Claudite jam rivos, pueri: Sat prata biberunt.

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

In Dirk's absence she would sit before it at night long after the rest of the weary household had gone to bed. Old Pom, the mongrel, lay stretched at her feet enjoying such luxury in old age as he had never dreamed of in his bastard youth.

We were very tired, we were very merry—We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.

She is happy where she lies With the dust upon her eyes.

Ah, I could lay me down in this long grass And close my eyes, and let the quiet wind Blow over me

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

Tavern" I'll keep a little tavern Below the high hill's crest, Wherein all grey-eyed people May sit them down and rest. There shall be plates a-plenty, And mugs to melt the chill Of all the grey-eyed people Who happen up the hill. There sound will sleep the traveller, And dream his journey's end, But I will rouse at midnight The falling fire to tend. Aye, 'tis a curious fancy-- But all the good I know Was taught me out of two grey eyes A long time ago.

For the body at best    Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest;    It cries when it wakes

And as it went my tortured soul (...) That all about me swirled the dust. Deep in the earth I rested now, Cool is its hands upon the brow And soft its breast beneath the head Of one who is so gladly dead.

He llegado al límite de mi resistencia física. Descanso apoyando ambas rodillas en el suelo y doblando la pierna izquierda hacia atrás y la pierna derecha hacia delante. Al verme en esta postura, una señora me da una moneda de pesetas veinticinco, que ingiero de inmediato para no parecer descortés.

you could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down.

They rested for a while. "How about a river trip?" he said. "You've been promising that for months." "This time I mean it." "When?" "Very soon." "What made you think of that?" "I hear the call of the river." "That's the toilet," she said. "The valve is stuck again." ***

To those who were vigilant so we could rest, Who gave everything that we might thrive, Who are silent that we may breathe free, We honor you.

A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.