Quotes About Repose

The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence as for his repose.

When you're lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is taboo'd by anxiety,I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in, without impropriety.

I've got to sleep. Sleep is my only way to escape.

You do not always have to be producing, creating, harvesting. Learn to be idle. Learn to rest.

From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

The true is thus the bacchanalian whirl in which no member is not drunken; and because each, as soon as it detaches itself, dissolves immediately — the whirl is just as much transparent and simple repose.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Sleep that masters all.

R.I.P. Tom Conlon O'Rourke. Not Dead, just Sleeping.

I've learned of life this bitter truth Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose, But rather, Build within thy own soul Fortresses!

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

For years, for most of my recollected life, I'd walked carefully over a subterranean well of boredom and hopelessness that lay just beneath the thin outer layer of my imagination. If I'd stood still too long, if I'd given in to repose, I'd have fallen through. So I'd made things, gone to clubs and movies. I'd kept changing my hair.

Take love when love is given, But never think to find it A sure escape from sorrow Or a complete repose.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

There was such a repose and quiet here at this hour, as if the very hill-sides were enjoying the scene, and as we passed slowly along, looking back over the country we had traversed, and listening to the evening song of the robin, we could not help contrasting the equanimity of nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume always a crises near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending." - A Walk to Wachusett

You like excitement and emotion and change, you like remarkable sensations, whereas I go in for a holy calm, for sweet repose.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

I was calm, no one wants the kind of calm I was.

my room and fell onto the bed with

I love sleep; it's my favorite.

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.