Repose Quotes

• Banish, therefore, from thy heart the distractions of earth and turn thine eyes to spiritual joys, that thou mayest learn at last to repose in the light of the contemplation of God.

  

  Albertus Magnus
  • God
  • Joys
  • Repose

• Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist's mind? - can both repose and energy be seen in a painting's line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? - and is the true effect of a good painting on the spectator one that makes at once for repose and energy, calmness and intensity, serenity and stir?

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Energy
  • Painting
  • Composition

• Silence is the neutral Center in which movements take a breath of repose.

  

  Nelly Mazloum
  • Silence
  • Movement
  • Repose

• When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Existence
  • Birth
  • Surrender

• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Society
  • Creature
  • Valley

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

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Death
  • Thought
  • Disturbs

• Why should the soul ever repose? God, its Principle, reposes never.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • God
  • Soul
  • Repose

• Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Secret
  • Meditation
  • Contemplation

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