Top 100 At Rest Quotes
#1. Why does my action strike them as so horrible? Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My conscience is at rest. Of course, it was a legal crime, of course, the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed. Well, punish me for the letter of the law ... and that's enough.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#2. I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.
Shakuntala Devi
#3. OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.
Ambrose Bierce
#4. People under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
Franz Kafka
#6. Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest
Gaston Bachelard
#7. With the few small spots of light like golden stars in the night, the sweet stale scent of incense, and the warm smell of the burning wax. And she at rest within her own star.
Sigrid Undset
#8. Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!
Benjamin Franklin
#9. Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
Isaac Newton
#10. To ask her to please promise me she isn't walking out on me. Please out my mind at rest and tell me she's not leaving.
Lisa Reardon
#11. The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!
Edgar Lee Masters
#12. When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.
William Blake
#13. Slim cunning hands at rest, and cozening eyes,
Under this stone one loved too wildly lies;
How false she was, no granite could declare;
Nor all earth's flowers, how fair.
Walter De La Mare
#14. That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.
Anna Akhmatova
#15. Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet.
Anne Lamott
#16. I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.
L.M. Montgomery
#17. Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
Meister Eckhart
#18. The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.
Confucius
#19. Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.
Misty May-Treanor
#20. his mind at rest, his flesh at ease, he went on, re-chewing his happiness, like those who after dinner taste again the truffles which they are digesting.
Anonymous
#21. Thy lot or portion of life is seeking after thee; therefore be at rest from seeking after it.
Ali Ibn Abi Talib
#22. Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.
Richard Powers
#23. The heart is a repository of emotions
real, imagined, and invented, owned and borrowed, past, present, future
and there in your chest, operating at an average of 80 beats per minute at rest, is a heart that has stories to tell.
A.A. Patawaran
#24. The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.
Saadi
#25. For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest.
Lloyd Alexander
#26. The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest - Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast.
William Wordsworth
#27. The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life,
the greater peace.
Elisabeth Elliot
#28. An honest man here lies at rest,
The friend of man, the friend of truth,
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm'd,
Few heads with knowledge so inform'd;
If there's another world, he lives in bliss;
If there is none, he made the best of this.
Robert Burns
#29. BOOK THE FIRST Which treats of the Night of Sense. STANZA THE FIRST On a dark night, Kindled in love with yearnings - oh, happy chance! - I went forth without being observed, My house being now at rest.
San Juan De La Cruz
#30. Joy is peace dancing. Peace is joy at rest.
F.B. Meyer
#31. Just sitting does not involve reaching some understanding. It is the subtle activity of allowing all things to be completely at rest just as they are, not poking one's head into the workings of the world.
John Daido Loori
#32. The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
Joseph Conrad
#33. is it not better to complain if one but complain to God himself? Does he not then draw nigh to God with what truth is in him? And will he not then fare as Job, to whom God drew nigh in return, and set his heart at rest?
George MacDonald
#34. All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room.
Blaise Pascal
#35. God is fighting your battles. When you're at rest, God will make your enemies your footstool.
Joel Osteen
#36. At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.
Jefferson Davis
#37. What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.
Ellen Goodman
#38. And having returned from the woods, we remember with regret its restfulness. For all creatures there are in place, hence at rest. In their most strenuous striving, sleeping and waking, dead and living, they are at rest. In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest.
Wendell Berry
#39. Let me always be happy, so I can do my best, at home, at school, at work, at rest.
Simon Birks
#40. And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
Callimachus
#41. It was so wonderful to be there, safe at home, sheltered from the winds and the cold. Laura thought that this must be a little like heaven, where the weary are at rest.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#42. Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.
Epicurus
#43. The heart that is at rest grows and develops from anything.
John De Ruiter
#44. If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#45. Water is peaceful. I am at rest. In the water, I am safe and pulled in where I can't get out. Everything slows down-the noise and the racing of my thoughts.
Jennifer Niven
#46. She risked her life to put your mind at rest,' Evgenia said. 'How great is love!
Marcus Sedgwick
#47. Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
Amy Carmichael
#48. If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
Corrie Ten Boom
#49. There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of possible contingencies will never be at rest.
Samuel Johnson
#50. Stone and sea are deep in life
Two unalterable symbols of the world
Permanence at rest
And permanence in motion
Participants in the power that remains
Stephen R. Donaldson
#51. What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
Irving Penn
#52. In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation ... , I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.
Franklin Pierce
#53. It may be," replied Coll, smiling, "we know least what we treasure most. But we will have more than enough to keep us busy when you come back, and you will learn, my boy, there is nothing like work to put the heart at rest.
Lloyd Alexander
#54. That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Andrew Wiles
#55. Someone has said that Satan knows nothing of true pleasure and satisfaction, that he is an expert only in amusements. David had learned the difference, and we would do well to imitate him. True pleasure comes from knowing God, being known by God, and being at rest in His presence.
David Jeremiah
#56. In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful ... You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
Doris Lessing
#57. Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#58. Sonship is a heart that feels at rest and secure in God's love; it believes it belongs, it is free from shame and self-condemnation, it walks in honor toward all people, and it is willing to humble itself before man and God. It is subject to God's mission to experience His love and to give it away.
Jack Frost
#59. As we get older, we define happiness less in terms of excitement and more in terms of peacefulness. Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, "Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.
Sheryl Sandberg
#60. A human being at rest runs on 90 watts. That's how much power you need just to lie down. And if you're a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you'll need about 250 watts. That's how much energy it takes to run about and find food.
Geoffrey West
#61. desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection - indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring,
Peter Kreeft
#62. Begin to realize more and more that prayer is the most important thing you do. You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you have an opportunity to do so, either alone or with others; while at work, while at rest, or while walking down the street. Anywhere!
Ole Hallesby
#63. The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
J.G. Ballard
#64. An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
Isaac Newton
#65. acceptance is the heart of true love, not judgment. To be fully accepted by another, even in your weakest moment, is to finally feel at rest. You
Nicholas Sparks
#66. But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.
Mark Twain
#67. A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.
Joseph Roth
#68. Prayer is such an ordinary, everyday, mundane thing. Certainly, people who pray are no more saints than the rest of us. Rather, they are people who want to share a life with God, to love and be loved, to speak and to listen, to work and to be at rest in the presence of God.
Roberta Bondi
#69. Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.
Albert Einstein
#70. Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.
Matthew Henry
#71. To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture
how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?
Roger L'Estrange
#73. But looking at this closet, so nice and arranged with their crazy lives at rest among these carefully placed clothes and footwear, she felt good about where they were. "Normal" was not a bad things in this lunatic world; it really was. No matter how it happened to be defined.
J.R. Ward
#75. The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.
Orson Scott Card
#76. And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you- I am at rest with you- I have come home.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#77. Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.
George Harrison
#78. If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.
Michael Winter
#79. Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.
Paul Gauguin
#80. 8He is ever present with me; at all times He goes before me. I will not live in fear or abandon my calling because He stands at my right hand. 9This is a good life - my heart is glad, my soul is full of joy, and my body is at rest. Who could want for more?
Anonymous
#81. My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.
Robert Southey
#82. When you are corn and roses and at rest
I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost
To haunt the scene where I was happiest
To bend above the thing I loved the most
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#83. Whatever thou worshippest, whatever thou perceivest, whatever thou doest, give up all unto Him and be at rest.
Swami Vivekananda
#84. The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed,
And my head, worn out with love, at rest
In my hands, and my hands full of dust.
Ted Hughes
#85. As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Oped every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd.
John Dryden
#86. Simplicity without a name
Is free from all external aim.
With no desire, at rest and still,
All things go right as of their will.
Lao-Tzu
#87. Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves, or the sun moves and the earth is at rest, would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS
Albert Einstein
#88. Christ asks for a home in your soul, where he can be at rest with you, where he can talk easily to you, where you and he, alone together, can laugh and be silent and be delighted with one another.
Caryll Houselander
#90. I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.
Marcus Aurelius
#91. Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea ...
Leonardo Da Vinci
#92. Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.
Rick Warren
#93. President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
Elton Gallegly
#94. Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.
Emil Cioran
#95. In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons.
Anna Akhmatova
#96. From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.
Richard Wagner
#97. The spirits of the young women are at rest," said Marley, "if you believe the legend." "I am believing that spirits never rest. That is their misfortune. They have no choice but to roam endlessly and never to arrive. It is our belief.
Christopher G. Moore
#98. 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.
Gaston Bachelard
#100. The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.
Giordano Bruno
