There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our… — John Baillie Copy Share Image
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished a word that for them has no sense but… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Over the following days and weeks I would come to see, with mounting weariness, that this was to be the pattern of… — Marie Darrieussecq Copy Share Image
All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference,… — Leopold Hartley Grindon Copy Share Image
The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is weariness that causes seers not to act on what they see; for whereas the wisdom of the world can… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the… — Gene Tunney Copy Share Image
[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? — Homer Copy Share Image
Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Out of the dreariness Into its cheeriness Come we in weariness, Home.” — Stephen Chalmers Copy Share Image
“There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom.” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and… — John Henry Jowett Copy Share Image
“Inez looked tired but hopeful. She was developing bags not only under her eyes but over them. If nothing else, the Revolution… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
![“[I]n order to raise a soul to the highest perfection, He allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats, causing it thereby to honor the times of weariness in the life of His Son, Our Lord, who suffered various kinds of anguish and abandonment.” quote by Vincent de Paul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/741/vincent-de-paul-1676_abandonment_i-n-order-to-raise-a-soul-to-the-highest_1457809.jpg)
