Quotes About Rest

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Your thief looks Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, That wise men know your felon by his features.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

Any unrest and any strife can be borne, as I have already said, if we find peace where we live; but if we would have rest from the thousand trials which afflict us in the world and the Lord is pleased to prepare such rest for us, and yet the cause of the trouble is in ourselves, the result cannot but be very painful, indeed almost unbearable.

A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting.

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.

When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up.

Zamore may say within his tomb, as says the Greek dancer in her epitaph: "Earth, rest lightly on me, for I rested lightly on thee.

I ENTREAT THEE TO LET THY DIVINE EYES REST UPON A VAST NUMBER OF LITTLE SOULS, I ENTREAT THEE TO CHOOSE, IN THIS WORLD, A LEGION OF LITTLE VICTIMS OF THY LOVE.

A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.

Laying in bed rn still trying to figure out if I should go back to sleep or go to school.

Put out the light.

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to you for those minutes. Enjoy your blessed aloneness for a brief season.