Quotations about

Rest

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

—Jules Renard

When do I stop? When I'm twenty-five? Thirty? Thirty-five? Forty? Or right this minute? Nobody tells you how long you should keep doing something before you give up forever.

—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings

As terrible as the truth was, there was something restful about it.

—Bree Despain in The Dark Divine

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

—Francis Quarles