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Quotes About Rest

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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~ Randy Alcorn
O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer fuller be. O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from Thee; I lay in dust life's glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be.10
~ Ravi Zacharias
What a wonderful day it was when I stopped running and, by His strength, let the embrace of His love envelop me.
~ Ravi Zacharias
A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.
~ Ray Bradbury
In the morning he would not have needed sleep, for all the warm odors and sights of a complete country night would have rested and slept him while his eyes were wide and his mouth, when he thought to test it, was half a smile.
~ Ray Bradbury
Maybe I don't have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don't we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?
~ Ray Bradbury
Think I'll go eat me a doughnut and take me a nap.
~ Ray Bradbury
Hay solo dos cosas con las que uno se puede acostar: Una persona y un libro
~ Ray Bradbury
Women never wake then, do they? They sleep the sleep of babes and children.
~ Ray Bradbury
Like a fall of timber he chopped himself to bed.
~ Ray Bradbury
A dozen, a hundred, a thousand candles flared until it looked as if the great Andromeda star cluster had fallen out of the sky and tilted itself to rest here in the middle of almost-midnight Mexico.
~ Ray Bradbury
Váyase a casa, Montang. Váyase a la cama, ¿Por qué desperdiciar sus horas finales, dando vueltas en su jaula y afirmando que no es una ardilla?
~ Ray Bradbury
Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping.
~ Ray Bradbury
Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.
~ Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
~ Joseph Conrad
The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dulness of exhausted emotion.
~ Joseph Conrad
They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.
~ Joseph Conrad
And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to an eternal rest.
~ Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
~ Joseph Conrad
The danger, when not seen, has the imperfect vagueness of human thought. The fear grows shadowy; and Imagination, the enemy of men, the father of all terrors, unstimulated, sinks to rest in the dullness of exhausted emotion.
~ Joseph Conrad
anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was
~ Joseph Conrad