Quotes About Rest

For the rest of the night, all I could think about was how many heads had lain on those pillows before my own.

See you in dreamland

I'll see you in Dreamland.

Why doesn't Sunday ever wait until I'm tired?

the first and last time in history a Frenchman shirked rest and relaxation to get back to work.

I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea . That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

Atostogos suteiks man nauj? j?g? gr?žti prie savo neurasteniško gyvenimo.

To accept too many favors from Ramona was dangerous. He might have to pay with his freedom. Of course he didn't need that freedom now; he needed a rest. Still, after resting, he might want his freedom again. He wasn't sure of that, either. But it was a possibility.

I quit thinking long ago that all old people came to rest from the things they were out for in their younger years.

This rest and well-being were only a momentary difference in the strange lining or variable silk between life and void.

Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment of his falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy man is that of his awaking.

And on the seventh day God finished His work … and He rested … from all His work which He had done" (Genesis 2:2). Thus, work itself is something divine, something God Himself does. So

Can't wait to sit down for a while. This pretending to be brave and strong is getting old.

The man was allergic to sleep.

Sleep is a little slice of death.

Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

When Odysseus speaks of the measureless sea and the boundless earth, it is all so true and human, so inwardly and closely felt, and so mysterious. What use is it if I, like any schoolboy, can now parrot that the earth is round? Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.

Man needs but little earth for enjoyment, and still less for his final repose.

Guide us waking, O Lord, and guard us sleeping; that awake we may watch with Christ, and asleep we may rest in peace.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

Any place in our lives and heart where we are exerting our will and ways over God's will and ways will inevitably drain us of energy and resources. Exertion=Exhaustion. On the other hand, death to self requires only that we lay down at the foot of the cross and give up the right to run our lives. We say with Christ, "Not my will but Yours be done Father." The Crucified life is the entrance into true rest. #ComeAndDie

Let us cross over the river," he said quietly, "and rest under the shade of the trees.

Truth destroys the worst in man; pleasure destroys the best. If you love truth more than happiness, then open; otherwise, let rest." His

Sleep's what we need. It produces an emptiness in us into which sooner or later energies flow.