Quotes About Rest

Obsessional work alone would drive people just as crazy as would complete laziness

Be meil?s žmogus - tik atostogaujantis lavonas.

We get back pretty well. There is no further attack by the enemy. We lie for an hour panting and resting before anyone speaks. We are so completely played out that in spite of our great hunger we do not think of the provisions. Then gradually we become something like men again.

Katczinsky is right when he says it would not be such a bad war if only one could get a little more sleep.

But our comrades are dead, we cannot help them, they have their rest—and who knows what is waiting for us? We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short.

It is good, sometimes, not to have to think of anything. Not to have to do everything yourself. To be able to lean. Ach, darling, it is all quite easy really.

La guerre ne serait pas trop insupportable si seulement on pouvait dormir davantage.

There is nothing like the diversion of travel for one who is mentally fagged.

sounds that sleeping houses make

Churchill slept well, not even waking when the all clear sounded at three forty-five A.M. He always slept well. His ability to sleep anywhere, anytime, was his particular gift.

Sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come.

All I hope is that it is not too late... I am very much afraid that it is. But we can only do our best, and give the rest of what we have - whatever there may be left to us.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

The thirty-minute nap. When I heard a key in the door, I'd jump up, throw cold water on my face, smooth my clothes, pull the bedspread taut, stagger into the kitchen, and throw an onion in the oven. When my husband mentioned the chenille marks on my face, I'd lie and say, "It's bad skin.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought.

Take a good rest, small bird, he said. Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

I still need some more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

You cannot imagine how one can tire of pine trees.

Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.

You have to emend yourself. A man who doesn't sleep cannot live.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.