"Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!"

Rest, Sleep, Peace, Pain

39

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Gradually, he fell into that deep tranquil sleep which ease from recent suffering alone imparts; that calm and peaceful rest which it is pain to wake from. Who, if this were death, would be roused again to all the struggles and turmoils of life; to all its cares for the present; its anxieties for the future; more than all, its weary recollections of the past!"

Exlpore more Rest quotes

"Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that."

Charlie Watts, British Musician

Rest,

"You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

Rest, Holiday, Relaxation, Nature

"Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Rest, Night, Sleep, Dream, Comfort

"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."

John Green, American Author

Rest, Sleep, Dream, Memory, Longing

"A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae."

Henry Miller, American Author

Rest, Peace, Calm, Comfort

"To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself."

Henry Miller, American Author

Rest, Silence, Laziness, Indifference, Medicine

"A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something."

Zack Love, American Author

Rest, Sleep, Moment, Life

"Weekends are life's gift to those who hate their jobs."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Rest, Happiness, Truth, Today, Regret

"Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Rest, Life, Struggle, Emotion

"They can argue whatever they want. The problem is, when you interview every passenger, during the interviews you are looking for - you profile - you do profiling, to find the suspicious ones and put them out from the rest of the passengers."

Isaac Yeffet, Israeli Security Expert

Rest, Want

Explore more quotes by Charles Dickens

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

Life

"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."

Attitude

"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade."

Nature

"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."

Friendship

"He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in the suit, and hoping against hope to disentangle it from its mystification and bring it to a close. In the meantime, the place became dilapidated, the wind whistled through the cracked walls, the rain fell through the broken roof, the weeds choked the passage to the rotting door. When I brought what remained of him home here, the brains seemed to me to have been blown out of the house too; it was so shattered and ruined."