Repose Quotes

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

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.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.