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Repose Quotes

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

Charles F. Haanel
Silence, Meditation, Repose

Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

Neil Young
Reason, Repose, Labour

We will never have repose. The present is perpetual.

Georges Braque
Perpetual, Repose

Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

William Hazlitt
Conversation, Repose
William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.483

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

Michel de Montaigne
Glory, Repose
Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Wisdom, Mind, Repose

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

Cyril Connolly
Water, Tranquility, Repose
"The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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

Clyde Bruckman
Coincidence, Feels, Repose

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

Cesare Pavese
Thoughts Of Death, Repose
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.92, Transaction Publishers

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

Tom Robbins
Sausage, Silent, Repose

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

Stanisław I Leszczyński
Agitation, Repose, Astonishing
François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.164

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.

Petrarch
Doubt, Ends, Repose

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

Oliver Goldsmith
Husband, Flames, Repose
Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield”, p.42

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Michel de Montaigne
Paramount, Repose, Gentleness

Youth is a season that has no repose.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Youth, Seasons, Repose
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.158

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

Hosea Ballou
Vain, Elsewhere, Repose

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

Denise Levertov
Lying, Found, Repose
Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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

B.K.S. Iyengar
Should, Repose
"Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom".

repose, v.i. To cease from troubling.

Ambrose Bierce
Repose, Cease
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.197, University of Georgia Press

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