Quotes About Rest

The grave is the general meeting place.

So I began to dream of going back to Berlin. Yes, it had to be Berlin. It's not because it's the German town for Germans who can't cut it in the rest of Germany. No,it had to be Berlin because it was the only place I'd ever been really idle, as idle as the man in the movie Claire's Knee.

Each in his narrow cell forever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown.

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

Gregory the Great (sixth century), summarizing the Christian contemplative tradition, expressed it as "resting in God." This was the classical meaning of Contemplative Prayer in the Christian tradition for the first sixteen centuries.

Nor dies Revenge although he sleep awhile, For in unquiet, quietness is feigned, and slumbering is a common worldly wile.

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...

Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade,Where cold and unhonor'd his relics are laid.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

Dreaming is no other than groaning, while sleep our surgeon hath us in cure

Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has n (Quote by - resource, and the first wound is mortal.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

Jane reached Western New York in the dark. It had been a seven-hour drive, but she had stopped for meals and breaks, and then had taken time to sleep for two hours at a rest stop. The urgency she had been feeling since the night the ancient woman had come to her in her dream seemed to burn in her until she had worn herself out. Now she was feeling stronger.

Our only hope is the gospel, for there we rest on what Christ has done for us instead of boasting in ourselves.

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Old Biddy slept the peaceful sleep she deserved, the sweet blessed rest that comes to all those who have reached the end of their lives; as Bid had now come to hers.

Seek home for rest, for home is best.

A child who missed a nap, who feels hungry,

Rest here with me a moment," he said, "and let the world go to hell.

There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.

can remember when a dog could go to sleep all day in the middle of Main Street and nothing come along to disturb him.

Todos estamos en el Camino, y esta vía va siempre ascendiendo, con frecuentes sitios de reposo.