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Quotes About Repose

He'd forgotten what it felt like to surrender to the comfort of tranquility.
~ Tananarive Due
Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.
~ Jose Andres
I like to nap. I do like to sleep. Sometimes I sleep in between takes.
~ Jodie Foster
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
~ Victor Hugo
Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see.
~ Gina Greenlee
Der Schlaf, den wir ersehnen, der vollkommene Schlaf, ist traumlos. Wir werden von Träumen heimgesucht, sobald wir gelernt haben, uns zu erinnern und Reue zu empfinden
~ Golo Mann
Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.
~ Author Unknown
Moderate exercise is indispensable; exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
~ Socrates
beautiful thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of grace and kindliness, which solidify into genial and sunny circumstances: pure thoughts crystallize into habits of temperance and self-control, which solidify into circumstances of repose and peace:
~ James Allen
When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.
~ Thomas Cole
Here were the hopes which blossom in the paths of life, reconciled with the peace which is in the grave; motions of the intellect as unwearied as the heavens, yet for all anxieties a halcyon of calm: a tranquillity that seem no product of inertia, but as if resulting from mighty and equal antagonisms; infinite activities, infinite repose.
~ Thomas de Quincey
Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.
~ Nietzsche, Friedrich
Yet here, this night, you might repose with me, On green leaves pillowed: apples ripe have I, Soft chestnuts, and of curdled milk enow. And, see, the farm-roof chimneys smoke afar, And from the hills the shadows lengthening fall!
~ Virgil
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
~ Virginia Woolf
This morning I am wonderfully peaceful. Just like a storm that has spent itself.
~ Virginia Woolf
In the fatal course of the most painful ailments, sometimes […], sometimes there occur sweet mornings of perfect repose- and that not owning to some blessed pill or potion […] or at least without our knowing that the loving hand of despair slipped us the drug.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Así, quieto y ausente, estoy bien. En el color blanco encuentro el reposo. Déjame dormir. Déjame flotar. Sólo quiero navegar en las aguas insípidas del olvido.
~ Laura Restrepo
As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weather-beaten, ragged old rooks' nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.
~ Charles Dickens
After satisfaction, desire reposes in a cool and lucid sleep.
~ Aldous Huxley
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
~ James Joyce
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~ James Joyce
When all things repose, do you alone Awake to hear the sweet harps play To Love before him on his way, And the night wind answering in antiphon Till night is overgone?
~ James Joyce
Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul.
~ Leo Tolstoy