Restful Quotes

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.