Quotes About Repose

Sleeping solves a lot of problems.

Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Retirement is one great big giant coffee break.

Requiescat in pace [May he rest in peace; May she rest in peace].

Feelings are primarily about the quality of the state of life in the body's old interior, in any situation, during repose, during a goal-directed activity, or, importantly, during the response to the thoughts one is having, whether they are caused by a perception of the outside world or by a recollection of a past event as stored in our memories.

he gave way to a pleasant lassitude

The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!

Excelsior! You will never again pray, never again repose in limitless trust - you deny it to yourself to remain halted before an ultimate wisdom, ultimate good, ultimate power, and there unharness your thoughts

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Woe to the man who is always busy - hurried in a turmoil of engagements, from occupation to occupation, and with no seasons interposed of recollection, contemplation and repose! Such a man must inevitably be gross and vulgar, and hard and indelicate - the sort of man with whom no generous spirit would desire to hold intercourse.

He placed me in a straight chair against the wall, brought me an ashtray, sat at his desk with his back to the window. He was quick in movement, very still in repose. His bald scalp and watchful eyes made him resemble a lizard waiting for a fly to expose itself.

Sleep is the only rest we get; It's then we are at peace. We do not have to mop away the floor And wipe away the grease.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the mind, after so much constraint and formality as I had been doomed to suffer.

Cozy place you got here," he said, looking around the office. "You read all them books?" "I fear not. But one cannot simply get rid of books, you know. Especially books which have reposed so long on the same shelf." "Reckon they're good insulation," Yulie said, nodding at the shelving stretching from floor to ceiling along the interior wall.

How does the wind not cease to blow? How does the mind take no repose? Why do the waters, seeking to reach the truth, Never at any time cease to flow? —Atharva Veda, X.7.37