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Quotes About Repose

Soon his eyes close on their own accord, and he's swept back into sleep, that nightly place of plantlike deliverance.
~ Richard Powers
Personally, I could do without prophecies or quests for awhile.
~ Rick Riordan
Even nightmares have to sleep now and then.
~ Kelly Link
Our foster-nurse of nature is repose.
~ William Shakespeare
Some come to take their easeAnd sleep an act or two.
~ William Shakespeare
Me this unchartered freedom tires;I feel the weight of chance desires;My hopes no more must change their name,I long for a repose that ever is the same.
~ William Wordsworth
Sleep had crept in, and after a little while, she came for me too.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Il bel far niente.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We all need something that helps us to forget ourselves for a while
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I long for some rest, free from thought.
~ Alfred Lansing
Sleep nourishes, sure, but it also absolves, removing the demands of the daily, the duties and tasks, and the pesky need to exist.
~ Alison Pick
You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.
~ Derek Jeter
love to sleep. It's like being dead without the commitment
~ Richard Paul Evans
fallen asleep. I
~ Kit Ehrman
May they rest in eternal peace.
~ Gordon Pinsent
Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.
~ Jenna Black
He was in a room of the Gesshuuji, which he had thought it would be impossible to visit. The approach of death had made the visit easy, had unloosed the weight that held him in the depths of being. It was even a comfort to think, from the light repose the struggle up the hill had brought him, that Kiyoaki, struggling against illness up that same road, had been given wings to soar with by the denial that awaited him.
~ Yukio Mishima
During the repose which followed the battle of Manassas, it was deemed proper that the regiments of the different States should be assembled in brigades together, and, as far as consistent with the public service, that the spirit of the law should be complied with by the assignment of brigadier-generals of the same State from which the troops were drawn.
~ Jefferson Davis
se reposant de tout un après-midi de flânerie.
~ Émile Zola
I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the Eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
~ Emily Bronte
I don't know if it be a peculiarity in me, but I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death, should no frenzied or despairing mourner share the duty with me. I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break; and I feel and assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter - the Eternity they have entered - where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
~ Emily Bronte
I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.
~ Emily Bronte
Freedom, expansion, opportunity, and, above all, peace and repose, alone can teach us the real dominant factors of human nature and all its wonderful possibilities.
~ Emma Goldman
On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal