Quotes About Respite

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.

Basketball is my safe haven.

Slipknot's the kind of band you need to step away from and kind of take a break from and let it heal, so to speak.

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

I need a form of escape even when I'm working really hard.

No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.

I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.

As the centerpiece of a cherished ritual, it's a talisman against the chill of winter, a respite from the ho-hum routine of the day.

but tonight I'm on leave from everything. No 'Spire, no archon, no Durenna, no Lexicon, no navigational tables. Just simple arithmetic. Drink plus drinker equals drunk. Join me.

I just need time to catch my breath before you take it away again.

When it was over, they lay on their backs; there was a window on this, the top floor of the stairwell, and grubby light, and rising-falling chests. The air was heavy. Tons of it, heaping from their lungs. Henry gulped it good and hard, but his mouth showed true heart.

there were days you felt like waging war, and days when you just needed to go home.

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea …

Whatever it was she was doing, it seemed to be giving him just a small respite from that.

Unless the movie is about to release, I don't like to be in the limelight. Then I have no choice, but after that you have to get back.

Just acting on someone else's set feels like a holiday, almost.

We find ourselves attached to fantasy worlds sometimes when it's hard to process what's going on in our world. It's reassuring to see the good winning.

I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.

But it felt so good, so good to let someone else carry her burdens for just a little while.

I realize that I will always find respite amongst the migrants, the refugees, the expatriates, the homeless, the pirates. I will always be the fence-sitter. I will pass as I see fit and fail to pass when I was really hoping I would and refuse to pass when it serves my purposes.

We remember, so to speak. We remain eternally nostalgic for the innocence of childhood, the divine, unconscious Being of the animal, and the untouched cathedral-like old-growth forest. We find respite in such things.

Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.