Quotes About Rest

Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet!

Sleep is a death, O make me try By sleeping, what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed.

When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.

It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

Till tired he sleeps and life's poor play is o'er.

The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.

May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.

Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death.

Death's brother, sleep.

It was good that she remembered him, though it was exhausting to do so.No rest for the weary. Or the dying. Or the dead.

But when I am due…Keep local the chest to lay rest my simple skins in,

With a beaming face celebrate the joyful day and rest not therein. For no one can take away his goods with him. Yea, no one returns again, who has gone hence.

Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.

Yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep.

God's finger touched him and he slept.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Leisure with dignity.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.