Quotes About Repose

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

but tonight I'm on leave from everything. No 'Spire, no archon, no Durenna, no Lexicon, no navigational tables. Just simple arithmetic. Drink plus drinker equals drunk. Join me.

It does us all good to unbend sometimes.

And I've turned corners there was no going back to, corners in the middle of a room that led to Spain or solitude. And always the thin line between corner and cornered, the good corners of bodies and those severe bodies that permit no repose, the places we retreat to, the places we can't bear to be found.

I can sleep ANYWHERE! I just love to sleep.

I can sleep. I love sleep; it's my favorite.

Del mismo modo hay que saber descansar, dejar lo que uno está haciendo y poner la cabeza en otra cosa que relaje, distraiga, divierta.

Upon my buried body lie lightly, gentle earth.

I'm not the type who parties regularly. I'm happy sitting at home, cooling my heels.

I like to go to places where you can relax a little after you're done working.

She needed the good mood, the way you need sleep after an all-nighter, the way you daydream of throwing yourself into bed.

On my tombstone it will say, 'At last, a day off.'

I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

After a slight repose, during which the spirits of the dead hovered round, and instigated me to toil and revenge, I prepared for my journey.

Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.

The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.

We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds.

Tenderness is the repose of passion. — Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert . (NYRB Classics; Main edition May 10, 2005) Originally published October 1983.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.