Quotes About Repose

Even Shakespeare gives you a scene off.

One of my confreres sketched an explanation that attracted me: since the process of digestion is under the control of the brain, its cessation gave repose to the brain, allowed it a vacation.

Music is something that should give you peace.

Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals.

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.

We are the driven ones. But the march of time Is but a trifle In our perpetual enduring. All this hastening Will soon be done; For only lingering Can consecrate our being. Young men, don't throw Your energies into tests of Speed or aerial flight. Know that all is in repose: The darkness, the brilliantly luminous, The flower, the book

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please This also became Conrad's epitaph.

Now and then a small red glow would move abruptly, and expanding light up the fingers of a languid hand, part of a face in profound repose, or flash a crimson gleam into a pair of pensive eyes overshadowed by a fragment of an unruffled forehead: and with the very first word uttered Marlow's body, extended at rest in the seat, would become very still, as though his spirit had winged its way back into the lapse of time and were speaking through his lips from the past.

My soul is wrapped in harsh repose, Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes, But soft... behold! A sunlight beam Butting a swath of glimmering gleam. My heart expands, 'tis grown a bulge in it, Inspired by your beauty... Effulgent.

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.

The austere serenity of Shangri-La. Its forsaken courts and pale pavilions shimmered in repose from which all the fret of existence had ebbed away, leaving a hush as if moments hardly dared to pass.

Thus upon mine restful couch I lie, Bathed with the dews of night, unvisited By dreams--ah me!--for in the place of sleep Stands Fear as my familiar, and repels The soft repose that would mine eyelids seal.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, ease after war, death after life, doth greatly please…

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman -- repose in energy.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.

Sit down and rest your sex appeal.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.