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Quotes About Rest

I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.
~ Bram Stoker
I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it's own calms.
~ Bram Stoker
Had it but been for myself the choice had been easy, the maw of the wolf were better to rest in than the grave of the Vampire!
~ Bram Stoker
As to what they might be resting upon, Stephen was determined not to consider).
~ Susanna Clarke
Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling, that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.
~ Susanna Kaysen
God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)
~ Swindoll Charles R.
At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
She needed a nap already, and it was not yet ten o'clock.
~ Sylvia Brownrigg
I breathed him in, feeling the effect of him— his nearness, his support— permeate my being. The smell of his soap was muted now, the naturally seductive scent of his skin altering the fragrance into something richer and more delicious. When I was restless, he settled me.
~ Sylvia Day
I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night...
~ Sylvia Plath
I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem to be summer any more
~ Sylvia Plath
How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.
~ Sylvia Plath
Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacation Where trees and clouds and animals pay no notice; Away from the labeled elms, the tame tea-roses
~ Sylvia Plath
But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil. Sucking up minerals and motherly love. So that each March I may gleam into leaf.
~ Sylvia Plath
wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. It
~ Sylvia Plath
A summer calm laid its soothing hand over everything, like death.
~ Sylvia Plath
Now I know how people can live without books, without college. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth.
~ Sylvia Plath
What I decided to do in the end was lie in bed as long as I wanted to and then go to Central Park and spend the day lying in the grass, the longest grass I could find in that bald, duck-ponded wilderness.
~ Sylvia Plath
What I decided to do in the end was to lie in bed as long as I wanted to and then go to Central park and spend the day long in the grass, the longest grass I could find in that bald, duck-ponded wilderness.
~ Sylvia Plath
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
~ Sylvia Plath
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~ Sylvia Plath
B. will be home, all mine, and I'll be secure for a little. How we need that security! How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. Maybe I need a man. One sure thing, I haven't met him yet...
~ Sylvia Plath
And yet I feel that sleep somehow
~ Sylvia Plath
now comes before all else: there is much to bear, and I must be strong and rested to be brave enough.
~ Sylvia Plath