Words matter. These are the best Repose Quotes from famous people such as James Stephens, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Merton, Leonard Cohen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Man works outwardly and inwardly – after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
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.
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
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.
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of angry faction.
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.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
The solution as consumers is – perhaps surprisingly – to take adverts very, very seriously. We should ask ourselves what it is that we find lovely in them – the visions of friendship, togetherness, repose, or whatever. And then consider what would actually help us find these qualities in our lives.
A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.
Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers’ happiness – or what management types refer to as ’employee satisfaction results’ – might improve.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
You have only to see what became of my father’s will immediately after his death, and the wills of so many other kings. I know it well; but nevertheless, they have wished it; they gave me no rest nor repose, no calm until it was done.
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
