Repose Quotes

• There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.

  William Shakespeare

  Comforting, Delight, Waste

  William Shakespeare (1836). “Dramatical Works: King Henry the Eighth”, p.79

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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Art

  "In the Cause of Architecture".

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Anxiety, Toil

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.88, Xist Publishing

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Choices, Mind

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

  Indira Gandhi

  Inspirational, Freedom, Women

  "The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India". People Magazine, June 30, 1975.

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• 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

  Morning, Sleep, Night

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• 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.

  Paul Bowles

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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

  Cyril Connolly

  Water, Tranquility, Truest

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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

  John Ruskin

  Opposites, Expression, Energy

  John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.62

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

  Edward Coke

  Home, Castles, Violence

  Semayne's Case (1603)

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Night, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happiness, Health, Doctors

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1638, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Cutting, Freedom And Happiness, Six

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• Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

  William Blake

  Dream, Travel, Journey

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

  Henry Adams

  Order, Sloth, Laziness

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 29

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

  Edward Coke

  Mother, Causes, Coke

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

  Tacitus

  Army, Arms, Pay

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• Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Morning, Labor Day, Tasks

  "The Village Blacksmith" st. 7 (1839)

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• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Sleep, Insomnia, Soul

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

  Wallace Stegner

  Home, Appreciate, Notion

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.149, Penguin

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• A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.

  Wallace Stegner

  Writing, Heart, Cutting

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• Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

  Wallace Stegner

  Moving, Mountain, Desert

  Wallace Stegner (1971). “Angle of Repose”, Penguin Group USA

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• If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?

  Clyde Bruckman

  Coincidence, Feels, Ifs

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• I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.

  August Wilson

  Mother, Song, Art

  August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.10, Penguin

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• We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiration, Blow, Laughing

  'Solitude'

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