Quotes About Rest

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its strength

Les vivants qu'on égare dans les cryptes du temps dorment si bien avec les morts qu'une même ombre les confond déjà.

the green numerals of Jo's bedside clock telling her that it was 3.08: insomniacs' hour.

Nature seemed to have folded satisfied hands to rest, knowing that her long wintry slumber was coming upon her.

In a halo of rainbow glory, I sit me down to rest. I forget the present and future, I live over the past once more, As I see before me crowding the beautiful days of yore.

Hating's easy. Couldn't be easier. It's just a default setting. The easy way out. It's all the rest that's actually hard.

For the woman who swelters in her kitchen or lolls in a drawing room, for the man who sits half his life in an office chair, an occasional swim does as much good as six months' vacation. That weary feeling goes away for once in the cool, quiet water. Tired men and tired women forget that stocks and cakes have fallen.

It's better to be under-trained and rested than to be overtrained and tired.     ~

She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place.

Still in Bed? Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. I am so glad you got at least a little rest today. I feared you'd work Greg to death while the rest of us tried to sleep.

In sleep, Ross's face was unguarded, his expression soft. It made him appear much younger. He also snored loud enough to wake the dead. It made her think it would be a good thing did she fall asleep first every night for the rest of their marriage. Annabel

I preferred to sleep, which is an interim way of dying.

A leitora, que é minha amiga e abriu este livro com o fim de descansar da cavatina de ontem para a valsa de hoje, quer fechá-lo às pressas, ao ver que beiramos um abismo. Não faça isso, querida; eu mudo de rumo.

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.

Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine...

Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.

To be 100% at all times is like a mirage in the desert of frustration. Enjoy your conquest and rest your mind. This will never be in vain.

Avoid making important or long-term decisions when you are fatigued mentally, emotionally or physically.

Often the psyche is the worst enemy of the body: it doesn't let the body live, it doesn't let it enjoy itself when it wants to or get the rest it is begging for. If only we could extract it the way we extract the tonsils or the appendix, we would all live healthy and contended lives till we were a thousand years old.

As a purely mathematical fact, people who sleep less live more.

vampire hours of rest between dawn and noon.

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

You don't know what you are writing. You're like a painter who has gone blind to his work. Go out. Get on your bicycle. You need movement, rest.