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Quotes About Rest

Afterwards they turned in and slept for twelve glorious hours without a single interruption.
~ Alfred Lansing
I long for some rest, free from thought.
~ Alfred Lansing
Give us long rest or death, dark death or dreamful ease.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
God's finger touched him, and he slept.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shoreThan labor in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar;Oh rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapp'd in universal law.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
How fares it with the happy dead?
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I am tired of tears and laughter,And men that laugh and weep;Of what may come hereafterFor men that sow and reap:I am weary of days and hours,Blown buds of barren flowers,Desires and dreams and powersAnd everything but sleep.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
To sleep, to swim, and to dream, for ever.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
So Tristram looked on Iseult face to face and knew not, and she knew not. The last time -- The last that should be told in any rhyme Heard anywhere on mouths of singing men That ever should sing praise of them again; The last hour of their hurtless hearts at rest, The last that peace should touch them, breast to breast, The last that sorrow far from them should sit, This last was with them, and they knew not it.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
I am tired of tears and laughter, And men that laugh and weep Of what may come hereafter For men that sow to reap: I am weary of days and hours, Blown buds of barren flowers, Desires and dreams and powers And everything but sleep.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
It's all right to forget, you know, he said. It's good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.
~ Ali Smith
It's alright to forget, you know. It's good to. In fact we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.
~ Ali Smith
It's all right to forget, you know, he said. It's good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.
~ Ali Smith
It's all right to forget, you know, he said. It's good to. In fact, we have to forget things sometimes. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.
~ Ali Smith
I couldn't sleep in my dream.
~ Alice Notley
Can't I go lonely to bed?
~ Alice Notley
I rest all night in the eye of a hurricane.
~ Alice Notley
Jesus appears to have walked unstressed and unhurried. His peaceful pace seems to imply that he measured himself not by where he was going and how fast he could get there but by whom he was following and how closely they walked together.
~ Alicia Britt Chole
Sleep nourishes, sure, but it also absolves, removing the demands of the daily, the duties and tasks, and the pesky need to exist.
~ Alison Pick
He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week.
~ Allan Folsom
The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.
~ Ally Carter
Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father's knee and her uncle's table.
~ Ally Carter