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Quotes About Rest

Maybe when I'd dead, he thought. Maybe when I'm dead I'll get some goddamned sleep.
~ Shalom Auslander
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
~ Shana Alexander
We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.
~ Shane Koyczan
Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.
~ Shanna Swendson
When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.
~ Shannon Hale
A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.
~ Shannon Hale
Even stories need a chance to sleep.
~ Shannon Hale
And when you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.
~ Shannon Hale
When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.
~ Shannon Hale
Lexi is still recovering. I don't want to overwork her. I think I want to take her back home and let her rest up for the day.
~ Sharon Dunn
She wished that she dared take a nap; she was tired, and her back hurt, though not enough to make her swear that she was going to find whoever'd thought it would be a good idea to get pregnant and dislocate their jaw.
~ Sharon Lee
I put my hand on the mastodon of his buoyant hand, which was resting, now, as a swimmer at the end of a stroke may glide, may glide, desire, desire, rest, desire.
~ Sharon Olds
Did I ask with the space in the ground, like a portion of breath, where my body will rest, when it is motionless, when its elements move back into the earth?
~ Sharon Olds
I love you, Robert Tate." Bud fingered her ring. "I love you, too. I think I'm going to rest now. Promise you won't go anywhere without me." "I promise." He closed his eyes. Holly lay facing him, burning every nuance of his misery into her brain. She was determined to remember, when she was in labor giving birth to their first child, that, for the love of his woman, he'd been the first to bear pain.
~ Sharon Sala
People with disrupted cortisol-secretion patterns have higher body fat (particularly in the abdomen), lower muscle mass (particularly in the arms and legs), and reduced basal metabolic rate (BMR, the number of calories burned at rest).
~ Shawn Talbott
Now I was tired. All I wanted was to rest. The six days of Creation each have their own morning and evening, thereby showing their beginning and end. Only the seventh day has neither morning nor evening. It stands outside of Creation , belonging to the divine order alone. I wanted a day without morning or evening. I wanted a day of rest.
~ Sheila Heti
It's Sunday now for all you lonely fuckers, but for me it's always Sunday afternoon.
~ Sheila Heti
And She dances and spins toward darkness all dressed in autumn fire To descend to the time of shadow, and rest from the world's desire…
~ Shekhinah Mountainwater
Heaven itself [...] would be— must be— a coming home.
~ Sheldon Vanauken
A dream has power to poison sleep
~ Shelley
You can only sleep in one bed at a time.
~ Nick Rhodes
I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.
~ Nina Arianda
I'd like to have permanent time off, really. The goal is financial security and permanent time off, basically.
~ Paul Giamatti
Yeah, don't you take a break?" "I don't have time for breaks." "That's the whole point of a break. When you've got no time, you need a break.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah