Quotes About Rest

What we all need is enough vacation every day so that we can face each morning with health sufficient to do our work in gladness. That is to say, we need enough of a play-spell every day to keep us in good physical condition.

'Shut, shut the door, good John!' fatigu'd, I said, 'Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.'

I took a nap today just to stop eating.

People who snore always fall asleep first.

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, "lie low, go slow, and keep cool."

There is no faith and no hope without sleep.

She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) and the rest of him buried somewhere else.

Without answering, he pulled the comforter over his head. If only he could sleep a few days in a row. He felt sorry for himself and sick of everything.

Well I'll be damned, thought Barbarotti. He's telling me . . . he's actually telling me to go home, lie on my bed and think. In paid work time. For a whole day. 'Not a bad idea,' Barbarotti said, getting quickly to his feet. 'Certainly worth a try. Er . . . I'll be back tomorrow, then?

Mahler:] I thought you were on sick leave for the rest of the month. I am, said Van Veeteren. It's just that I find it hard to turn my back on things. And also to turn a blind eye.

Let sleeping gods lie.

Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

So, what do you do? - Nothing. - What kind of nothing? - The nothing kind of nothing.

God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.

And then she cries some more, and finally she finds sleep, as one always eventually finds sleep, after toothache and after childbirth, after a fight and after a rare joy.

I felt incapable of making any such effort at the moment. For some reason I had been feeling rather low for nearly a year now. I was more and more inclined to let things go their own way and not excite myself too much. I was in need of rest—why, I do not know.

Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

there are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,—

Tom read,—"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." "Them's good words, enough," said the woman; "who says 'em?" "The Lord," said Tom. "I jest wish I know'd whar to find Him," said the woman.

They knelt together, and the good man prayed,—for there are some feelings so agitated and tumultuous, that they can find rest only by being poured into the bosom of Almighty love,—and then, rising up, the new-found family embraced each other, with a holy trust in Him, who from such peril and dangers, and by such unknown ways, had brought them together.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

De eeuwige rust komt toch wel – daar hoef ik geen voorschot op te nemen.