logo

Quotes About Repose

I love my sleep.
~ Caprice Bourret
I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.
~ Bryan Cranston
I love sleeping, I can sleep for 15 hours a day.
~ Smriti Mandhana
I like sleeping a lot.
~ Ian Mckellen
I've never had trouble sleeping in my life.
~ Jonathan Groff
My only time off is when I'm sleeping.
~ Trombone Shorty
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
~ Michel de Montaigne
for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless.
~ Milan Kundera
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
~ Ovid
We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be.
~ J.R. Rim
Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say, My tablets! Quick, my tablets! `tis meet that I put it down, etc., 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.
~ Bram Stoker
One third of our life is spent in sleep. It is consolation for the troubles of our waking hours or atonement for their pleasures; but I have never experienced sleep to be mere repose. After a few minutes lethargy, a new life begins, untrammeled by the limitations of time and space, and undoubtedly similar to that which awaits us after death...
~ Gerard de Nerval
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sink to the ground holding death's hand oh comrade if you are the father of great repose, if you are all you seem and nothing more, I'm glad that you are here.
~ Sun Ra
through the air, Sarah's glance darted out, then away, like a whip. Unbeknownst to themselves they were as noticeable as lighthouses. In repose, even when they both stared straight ahead, the wire ran between them, and their peers changed their paths to avoid tripping on it.
~ Susan Choi
At some point, I don't want to have any obligation. And just chill out.
~ Charles Barkley
peace is love in repose
~ Joy is love exalted
Quando il dolore cessa di riflettere il sonno approfitta della buona occasione.
~ Thomas Hardy
However, it is so sometimes, and nothing happens that we expect, he added, with the repose of a man whom misfortune had inured rather than subdued.
~ Thomas Hardy
He loved the sea and for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity—proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive—a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness
~ Thomas Mann
Great," Keagan said simply. "Nice to meet you, Miss Castle. I'm off for a week, so I won't be around for a while." He sounded relieved. "But Jack Smith
~ Kathryn Shay
Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
~ George Allen
Atheism ... that bugbear of women and fools ... is the very top and perfection of free-thinking. It is the grand arcanum to which a true genius naturally riseth, by a certain climax or gradation of thought, and without which he can never possess his soul in absolute liberty and repose.
~ George Berkeley