Quotes About Respite

I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

There, there, my dear boy,' he said, 'come and have a sloe gin. That's the real answer to all beastly problems.

Their inability to disengage from work in the evening deprives them of the only possible respite from labor, and life without some kind of rest is torture. The worst irony is that taking care of the verminous Gregor is a filthy chore. Gregor, by escaping work, has not only forced his former dependents into labor, but has become work: disgusting work that only his disgraced family can perform.

At a certain age, especially after certain hardships, you only want one thing: to be left alone! ...or better still, you'd like people to think you're dead! in a recent poll on 'what the young people think', they all thought I was dead... died in the Greenland! Not bad!

And I want one day of respite, one day off, one day in which no new bodies are piled up, one day in which no new agony is added to the old, and I am asking you to give it to me. And how could I ask you for less--it is so little. And how could you offer me less: it is so little. Even in wars, there are days of truce. Go and organize a truce. Stop your side for one day. I want a twenty-four-hour truce during which there is no rape.

Can't wait to sit down for a while. This pretending to be brave and strong is getting old.

But think that weAre but turn'd aside to sleep.

It is that cricket field that, in all the sharp and bitter moments of life as they come to me now, gives me a sense of wholesome proportion: 'At least I am not playing cricket!

A program like the Fresh Air Fund gives people a chance to break away for a while. I've been fortunate to be able to raise my family that way.

Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.

Give me a break.

After 'Furious 6,' that was a natural break for me. It was a good time to step away.

Creating fantasy is real work, important work. It's a hard, cold world we live in, and sometimes we need to escape. Sometimes we need that more than food or water or a roof over our heads.

There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.

After we released 'Drakengard 3', I think everyone was well sick of all the games I made by then, and I really didn't really want to work anymore. I was thinking I'd probably just go and hide in the mountains and live out the rest of my life as a hermit or something.

Life without the gift of rest is merely existing without being able to enjoy the bouquet of all we have been given. Just as the fruit of Kristof's vines eventually suffered without respite so did the fruit of my own life.

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

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

I had enough of real life everyday to last me forever.

Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams & from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

Let my stories do what stories always do. Let them keep you from your darker dreams and from your darker journey. Let them keep you here.

True balm [of fantasy] takes away the painful irritation of life and simply heals, allowing one to begin anew. And that is what fantasy can do for us.