Repose Quotes

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.

A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

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

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

For retirement brings repose, and repose allows a kindly judgment of all things.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.

Old age is the repose of life; the rest that precedes the rest that remains.

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

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes

No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia gives the world repose.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.

There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

Find a beautiful place inside the nature and refresh yourself over there; how well you repose will mostly determine how far you can go in this universe!

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Relaxation: In. Every. Pose. There. Should. Be. Repose.

It is always the way of events in this life,...no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.

Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.

Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

In the experimental sciences, the epochs of the most brilliant progress are almost always separated by long intervals of almost absolute repose.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.