Quotes About Repose

Society is a long series of uprising ridges which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose; wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Lilliputian mole-hill.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Speedy was kicked back in his favorite chair, cap pulled down over his eyes, mouth open, dead to the world.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

I longed for the everlasting repose of heaven, that never-ending Sunday of the fatherland!

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly round him, feeling the ceaseless thumping of his heart in the silence of the night, the irrevocability of absence, the rigid stillness of repose, the agony of solitude and sleeplessness. If the room was a prison, the bed was a tomb.

That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awaked, and found myself reposed, Under a shade, on flowers, much wondering where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose

since my aunt's strength, which was completely drained by the slightest exertion, returned but drop by drop into the pool of her repose, the reservoir was very slow in filling, and months would go by before she reached that surplus which other people use up in their daily activities

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I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

There had been no repose for Europe yet—incessant tribal changes; a surging mass of humanity pouring from one land into another. The troubled continent was a great, seething caldron, from which was to emerge a new civilization.

Strew on her roses, roses,And never a spray of yew!In quiet she reposes;Ah, would that I did too!

He must be stilled in order to create that deep repose of the soul in which alone the word of God can be heard. Of

Sleeping." The word came out with an adorable lack of anything resembling an L, closer to something you'd do with a broom than in a bed.

Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!

I sat evaluating myself. I decided to lie down.

There is absolutely no way someone cannot be affected, or cannnot learn vital lessons by being forced to dwell in the margins of a hindering repose as the one loved by so very few." Dying and Loving It

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose...

The intense atom glowsA moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.