Quotes About Rest

I sleep poorly, but I nap rich

He yearned for privacy and for solitude. After my transportation to a so-called "rest camp," I had the rare fortune to find solitude for about five minutes at a time.

the dank night is sweeping down from the sky and the setting stars incline our heads to sleep.

Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.

Night reigned: all through the world tied bodies were harvesting tranquil slumber.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, halfway down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waves swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.

to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures.

Not as oneself did one find rest ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness.

distant views seemed to outlast by a million years (Lily thought) the gazer and to be communing already with a sky which beholds an earth entirely at rest.

It would be a comfort, she felt, to lean; to sit down; yes, to lie down; never, never, never to get up again.

It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in the darkness, in the shaft which ran from the sunlight to the depths, perhaps a tear formed; a tear fell; the waters swayed this way and that, received it, and were at rest. Never did anybody look so sad.

and it was a relief when they went to bed. For now she need not think about anybody.

All human beings were laid asleep—prone, horizontal, dumb.

But the doctors were hardly wiser then than they are now, and after prescribing rest and exercise, starvation and nourishment, society and solitude, that he should lie in bed all day and ride forty miles between lunch and dinner, together with the usual sedatives and irritants, diversified, as the fancy took them, with possets of newt's slobber on rising, and draughts of peacock's gall on going to bed, they left him to himself, and gave it as their opinion that he had been asleep for a week.

If he was silent I could be silent too. Indeed, I could very well do with a little rest in this subdued, frightened-to-death rocking chair, before I drove to wherever the beast's lair was - and then pulled the pistol's foreskin back, and then enjoyed the orgasm of the crushed trigger.

I moved on, and at noon, dragging through some village, I decided to halt, since even at such

The village schoolmaster took us for instructive walks ('what you hear is the sound of a scythe being sharpened' ; 'that field there will be given a rest next season ';'oh, just a small bird...no special name '; 'if that peasant is drunk, it is because he is poor ') 71

There are nights when as soon as I lie down My bed sails off to Russia.

When I reach a place where I have implicit confidence in God's ability to manage not only the affairs of the world but also mine, as I entrust them to Him, I will have found the place of rest.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.