Top 308 Repose Quotes & Sayings

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose.

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

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

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

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.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

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

Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

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

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

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

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

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

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

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

I have made my will; I have been tormented to do it. I have bought repose; I know the powerlessness and inutility of it.

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose it will often rather precipitate its conclusions than wait for the tardy lights of observation and experiment. There is such a thing, too, as the love of simplicity and system,--a prejudice of the understanding which disposes it to include all the phenomena of nature under a few sweeping generalities,--an indolence which loves to repose on the beauties of a theory rather than encounter the fatiguing detail of its evidences.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

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

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

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

In the same manner, having been reduced by disorder, and sunk to their utmost state of depression, unable to descend lower, they, of necessity, reascend; and thus from good they gradually decline to evil, and from evil again return to good. The reason is, that valor produces peace; peace, repose; repose, disorder; disorder, ruin; so from disorder order springs; from order virtue, and from this, glory and good fortune.

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

Youth is a season that has no repose.

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

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

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

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

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

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

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

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

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

And hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast and calm repose.

To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

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

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

Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life; love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.

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

Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

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

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Kings are like stars,-they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.

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.

Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

Truth is the ground of science, the centre wherein all things repose, and is the type of eternity.