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Quotes About Repose

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are of course mornings when you wouldn't mind a lie in.
~ Andrew Flintoff
Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths.
~ Thomas Cole
There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
~ William Shakespeare
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!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Take time to relax, renew and be revived.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
~ James Madison
Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.
~ Charles F. Haanel
Out of the city, far away With Spring today! Where copse tufted with primrose Give me repose, Wood-sorrel and wild violet Soothe my soul's fret.
~ William Allingham
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
~ William Blake
Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!
~ William Hazlitt
The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.
~ Francois Fenelon
The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.
~ Orlando Aloysius Battista
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.
~ Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
~ Edward Coke
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
~ Edmund Spenser
holidays took the poisons out of everyday life.
~ Edna O'Brien
i want to go back to bed. but i don't just want to go back to bed.
~ Alex Flinn
The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.
~ Alexander Hamilton
There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul.
~ Alexander Smith
At least once a week, I try to have one day where I have nothing planned so I can get up and just go back to bed and lay around and recharge my batteries.
~ Dolph Lundgren
I have no problem switching off.
~ Helen Baxendale