Quotes About Rest

never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Jack assumed they would be heading to the pub there in Century House. It was drab, like the rest of the building, but more important, it was vastly more secure than just venturing out to some alehouse on the street.

It is precisely to prevent us from thinking too much that society pressurizes us all to get out of bed.

You don't get ads on the Underground saying: "Tired? Then Sleep More," as no one has figured out how to make money this way.

One of the symptoms of the approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important & that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. Bertrand Russell

Sembra un paradosso ma per essere davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti

sembra un paradosso ma per esser davvero oziosi bisogna essere efficienti

A diet of solely mental work is suffocating.

Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.

Der Müßiggänger hat den Wunsch, ständig ein gutes Leben zu haben, nicht nur an Samstagabenden.

The lie-in—by which I mean lying in bed awake—is not a selfish indulgence but an essential tool for any student of the art of living, which is what the idler really is. Lying in bed doing nothing is noble and right, pleasurable and productive.

The next morning, Malcolm thought long and hard before waking up, for he had come to recognise over the past quarter of a century that rather less can go wrong if you are asleep.

People of ze wurl, relax!

You can't rest in the shade of a human, not even a roly-poly one; and isn't it refreshing that trees can undergo periodic change without having a nervous breakdown over it?

A sausage is an image of rest, peace and tranquility in stark contrast to the destruction and chaos of everyday life.

On Sa-bat, from which comes our Sabbath, men as well as women were commanded to rest, for when the moon menstruated, the taboo was on everyone. Originally (and naturally) observed once a month, the Sabbath was later to be incorporated by the Christians into their Creation myth and made conveniently weekly.

Le bonheur que je ressens lorsque je savoure le repos et la sérénité de cet endroit [le Spielweg, dans la Forêt-Noire, vallée du « Münstertal »], se retrouve dans les dessins que j'ai souhaité vous présenter dans ce livre.

Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.

Someone appeared, with gentle and penetrating eyes, who - with no exchange of words - understood; and before whose glance her eyes dropped. The someone had no face, no form, no voice, no odour. He was a simple Presence, an all-embracing tenderness with strength and a promise of rest.

All narrative begins for me as listening. When I read, I listen. When I write, I listen—for silence, inflection, rhythm, rest.

He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in his chest where a red heart used to be.

Now they will rest before shouldering the endless work they were created to do down here in paradise.

Lo que tengo que hacer es meterme en la cama y no moverme. Quiero concentrarme en algo que sea inofensivo en este mundo.

Finally Milkman could take no more; he had to rest. At the next tree he sank down to the ground and put his head back on its bark. Let them laugh if they wanted to; he would not move until his heart left from under his chin and went back down into his chest where it belonged.