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Quotes About Rest

You're not too good for the sleep mask-neck pillow combo! You're not too cool for it!
~ Nikki Glaser
If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.
~ Chris Robinson
If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.
~ Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.
~ Big Pun
Each day, each noise I gather explodes, leaving me to death; to rest in the solace of silence & to be re-born.
~ Gopichand Lagadapati
Death rock me asleep.
~ William Shakespeare
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
~ Florynce Kennedy
For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.
~ Edith Piaf
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
~ Frederic Chopin
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
~ Clarice Lispector
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Death is an eternal sleep.
~ Unknown
Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
~ Blaise Pascal
Rest is for the dead.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.
~ Thomas Browne
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest as they lie in death.
~ Isaiah
Death is the quiet haven of us all.
~ William Wordsworth
If the matter of death is reduced to sleep and rest, what can there be so bitter in it, that any one should pine in eternal grief for the decease of a friend?
~ Lucretius
Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
~ Thomas Gray