Quotes About Respite

I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

I didn't want a fresh start, but maybe a little breathing room would be nice.

By the time I covered myself with the crisp sheet and soft blanket, I was tired and ready to close the book on this insane day.

I needed a break from the breakneck speed of daily soaps.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.

When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override.

And here I am again, not convalescing this time but decompressing, which is a lot better than decomposing.

Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.

He wanted his Leopard to keep up the strange behavior. He sensed that this woman, in some way, calmed the dangerous predator in him, and having that respite, if only for a few moments, after a lifetime of sheer hell, was a miracle.

The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite.

After the week she'd had, she wanted to go to the cafe and sink into a couch, gossip and laugh and sketch and drink tea and make up for lost normal.

Reading a good book can be like being on vacation!

Come forward. Come in from the summer heat and the flies. Come in from that assault on all senses, that pummelling of rod and cone and drum and cilia. Come in from the great spotlight of the sun, sweeping across the white sands, making everyone, and therefore no one, a star. Come inside and meet the prologue.

In the brief respite, James tore up part of the flooring and leaped down into an underground vault or drain. Unluckily for him, he had recently caused the egress from this chamber to be walled up because his tennis balls had sometimes been lost there.

It wouldn't last, of course. I had no illusions on that score. But while it did, I meant to relish every moment of the respite.

Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

We are all dead men on leave.

What I really spend money on is finding a nice place to stay near the sea.

No matter what else is wrong in the world a book will take you away from it.