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Quotes About Rest

But you have not slept yet, old man," he said aloud. "It is half a day and a night and now another day and you have not slept. You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady. If you do not sleep you might become unclear in the head.
~ Ernest Hemingway
All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Bed is my friend
~ Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
~ Etty Hillesum
A little girl lay flung back in her mother's lap as though sleep had struck her with a blow.
~ Eudora Welty
Even if you have kept silent for the sake of the dead, you cannot rest in your silence, as the dead rest.
~ Eudora Welty
SpuneÅ£i repede, domnule, c? n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihn?.
~ Eugene Ionesco
But it was true that I preferred to do nothing.
~ Andrew Martin
This man accepted his loss a long time ago, now he's just trying to make sure it's okay to put it all to rest.
~ Andrew Mayne
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
~ Andrew Murray
It was siesta time, which in Jealousy usually lasted from late morning until early evening.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
However, when it's time to get back in the saddle after resting, it's as though your arse were shouting, 'Help! Murder!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
On the trail all horses are free at night, except the regular night ones, which are used constantly during the entire trip, and under ordinary conditions keep strong and improve in flesh.
~ Andy Adams
It was easier to fall asleep in the chair and just wake up in the morning.
~ Andy Andrews
The biblical record suggests that we need to rest not just one day a week but for longer times at longer intervals, up to the forty-nine-year cycle called the "jubilee" that allowed both land and farmers to be rejuvenated. But if the work of creating consistently leaves us depressed or drained, it is likely that we have somehow missed the path. Creation, even on a human scale, is meant to end with the glad exclamation, "It is very good.
~ Andy Crouch
There is perhaps no single thing that could better help us recover Jesus' lordship in our frantic, power-hungry world than to allow him to be Lord of our rest as well as our work. The challenge is disarmingly simple: one day a week, not to do anything that we know to be work.
~ Andy Crouch
No descansó al séptimo día. Al séptimo día se cansó.
~ Ángel González
I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.
~ Angela Kinsey
But your heart muscle goes on working for as long as you live. It does not get tired, because there is a phase of rest built into every single heartbeat.
~ Angeles Arrien
Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.
~ Angie Sage
chairs that were scattered along the Walk for the benefit of those who found the distance too far to travel in one trip.
~ Angie Sage
hit the hay INFORMAL go to bed.
~ Angus Stevenson
I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
~ Ani DiFranco