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Quotes About Rest

Rest, heal. I'll come by again soon." Maybe she was scared at what was being asked of her, but if Izak could smile through his agony, she'd damn well find the guts to be what he needed her to be.
~ Nalini Singh
Sleep: the stepchild of Death.
~ Nancy A. Collins
Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough." There
~ Unknown
Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
~ Unknown
I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
~ Nancy Mitford
How pleasant is Saturday night,
When I've tried all the week to be good,
And not spoke a word that was bad,
And obliged everyone that I could.
~ Unknown
How pleasant is Saturday night, When I've tried all the week to be good, And not spoke a word that was bad, And obliged everyone that I could.
~ Unknown
Every noise, whether inside or out, had me opening my eyes wide to search out any possible danger until exhaustion finally claimed me and I slept.
~ Nancy Warren
When we refuse to obey God, when we are driven by our own desires, it is no surprise that rest and contentment elude us. When we follow Christ in obedience and humility, we find rest for our souls.
~ Nancy Wilson
To a righteous man, death is like a night sleep. He suffer no where else.
~ Unknown
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
~ Natalie Clifford Barney
Hurry up!" said a ghoul. who started to yawn. "There's so much to do before bedtime at dawn.
~ Unknown
It's similar to the run-walk-run method for endurance running where you don't wait to be too tired to run before you take a walk break. By resting even before the point of mental fatigue, you extend your ability to focus intensely on the task at hand … including reading.
~ Unknown
And we know, until they stop their terrible motion, until they cease swooping and darting and banging into the walls, until they alight, come to rest, exhausted, spent, there is nothing at all we can do.
~ Nathan Englander
I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
~ Nelson Mandela
I was to have a working holiday, the only kind of holiday I knew how to take.
~ Nelson Mandela
Ghosts were not the spirits of the dead returning but the memories of the living not yet laid to rest.
~ Nevada Barr
The seventh blast symbolises the seventh day, a time of stillness or rest, the interval between the subjective and objective states, a period of pregnancy or joyful expectancy. This stillness is not the stillness of the body but rather the stillness of the mind—a perfect passivity which is not indolence but a living stillness born of trust in this immutable law of consciousness.
~ Neville Goddard
There is a saying that when a bird in flight gets tired, it will land on any tree
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
Sleep well. Wake inspired.
~ Unknown
There are those who work so they can stop. Stopping is the why of work. There are those who stop so they can work. Working is the why of work.
~ Nick Cave
Peretur tasted the despair in her words; the bone-bleaching fear of her recent life; starving, running, terrified, cold, always hunted, nowhere to rest, even-especially-from her own band.
~ Nicola Griffith
If you don't sleep, you don't dream.
~ Nicola Griffith