Quotes About Rest

In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.

And then she took her wishes with her into her sleep.

There is a place where travelers rest, And lay their heads in peace. Returning to the Eagle's nest, All war within will cease. O Lamb of God, Our heart's desire, O Truth in Word, Eternal Fire, O Lamb of God, God's chosen Son, Receive them when Their race is run.

Maybe you should go home and rest," Simon told Meg. Maybe he could go home with her and they could cuddle for a while or play a game. Or she could watch a movie with him and pet him.

Maybe you should go home and rest," Simon told Meg. Maybe he could go home with her and they could cuddle for a while or play a game. Or she could watch a movie and pet him. "Merri Lee is helping me make some sample packages of cookies," Meg said, sounding like the only game she wanted to play right now was whack a Wolf.

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Like honey is the sleep of the just.

Perhaps Jonas is learning that bread without butter is no better for the spirit than all butter and no bread. Jonas has always been so serious. He hasn't realized that rest and fun and laughter are as important as work," she [Mother] looked down at her work-roughened hands, "though they don't always come as often as we wish.

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence.

He slept like a shout.

In the early 1990s, Chelyabinsk, like the rest of Russia, was flooded with foreign missionaries

The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters. PSALM 23:1 – 2

In six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. EXODUS 20:11

You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. ISAIAH 26:3

May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us — yes, establish the work of our hands. PSALM 90:17

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours' oblivion.

I want to sleep all day and night (i.e., not live but not quite die) …

I want to calm down, to rest, to outlive this nonsense.

Soon there were grown-ups scattered all across the grass. In the dark, they looked like laundry. "Now," said Bean in a loud voice. "Look up into the sky. Smell how nice the grass is. Listen to the trees. And just rest. Don't talk. Don't do anything. And don't worry. You're totally safe.

Ma mère écrivait, vous pourriez venir vous reposer à la maison, n'osant pas dire de venir les voir pour eux-mêmes.

Nothing equaled the bliss at the end of the day, after elbowing one's way with the first passengers into the crowded RER, and inching as close as possible to the center aisle seats, and standing for these stations, of finally sitting down and closing one's eyes, or doing a crossword.