When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is… — Elizabeth Berg 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]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
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
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
Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
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
Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint...… — John Calvin 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
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
How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello 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
We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness...Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and… — Richard Baxter 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
I didn’t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment… — Jennifer Weiner 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
That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all… — Henry Cuyler Bunner 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
The rate of growth of the relevant population is much greater than the rate of growth in funds, though funds have gone… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes… — John Henry Newman 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
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
Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the disease in our lives… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
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O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food,… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
I heard someone walk out of the alley behind me, and my body went tense and tight, despite my weariness. Then a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You were right about your Bela, Rand," Moiraine said from where she stood by the mare. "She has a good heart, and… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is… — Max Brooks 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/i/741/vincent-de-paul-1676_abandonment_i-n-order-to-raise-a-soul-to-the-highest_1457809.png)
