Top Repose Quotes
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
Jean-Paul Marat
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz
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
Cyril Connolly 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
Jean-Paul Marat 
Loretta Young 
Helena Petrova Blavatsky 
Indira Gandhi 
Henry David Thoreau 
Ambrose Bierce 
Thomas Merton All Repose Quotes
To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky 
63% of people like this quote
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
Jean-Paul Marat
60% of people like this quote
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke
58% of people like this quote
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz
55% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
54% of people like this quote
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
52% of people like this quote
Popular Repose Authors
Ralph Waldo EmersonHenry David ThoreauAmbrose BierceHenry Wadsworth LongfellowWilliam BlakeFrank Lloyd WrightLoretta YoungCyril ConnollyHenry B. AdamsThomas Merton
Robert SmithsonFrancis QuarlesGaston BachelardIndira GandhiEdward CokeThomas OtwayCzeslaw MiloszHelena Petrova BlavatskyJean-Paul Marat
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