Quotes About Respite

It's one o'clock and we're having a pre-match pint. It's been a hard week at the warehouse and the lager gives me a kick-start.

If happiness was now beyond his reach, he could at least know respite, and respite, with its lifelong rhythm, can in the awareness of it be called by the name of peace.

I was thinking of moments of respite. One can't get the most out of them unless one treats them as one treats the next thing; as though it were the only thing. I mean, if you think about the toothache that has just stopped, it so easily becomes the toothache that is going to begin again, and all your peace is lost.

de vez en cuando el género humano necesite irse un rato al carajo. Irse bien ido, y que alguien dé un empujoncito para facilitar el viaje. Tal

Vino ajeno y miseria propia. El reposo breve de un guerrero.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

I do like the dark, gritty psychological thrillers, but sometimes we need a little respite from that.

But I could not stay with him myself, for having got a great cold by my playing the fool in the water yesterday I was in great pain, and so went home by coach to bed, and went not to the office at all, and by keeping myself warm, I broke wind and so came to some ease. Rose and eat some supper, and so to bed again.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.

It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.

Time for a little something.

And Iris was far too beautiful to escape the appetite of the men—or the expectation of the women, seeking respite from that most tedious and taxing of their household duties.

There are times for sleep, for inactivity, dreaming, indiscipline, even lethargy. You'll know when you deserve these times. They come after you've been broken.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Vacation is my Medication

I didn't want to die, but I wanted to take my brain out of my head for a while.

Hoy, no; hoy respiramos; hoy se humedece nuestra boca achicharrada y se calma el ardor de nuestro corazón...

The Dying, is a trifle, pastBut living, this includeThe dying multifold—withoutThe Respite to be dead.

I'm tired of being set upon by crazed Christians one minute and unbridled libertines the next. Girls, I'm going camping.

In the education of the American people, I am Recess.

Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.

I need a break from politics, that's for sure. This is the hardest job in America.