Restless Quotes

357 quotes by 314 authors

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be… — Mary Wollstonecraft
And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life,… — James Joyce
Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next… — Julia Cameron
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented… — Ian Mcewan
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God....Music… — Martin Luther
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. — Saint Augustine
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… — Annie Dillard
Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who canâ€™t be happy until theyâ€™ve graduated, servicemen who canâ€™t be happy until… — Tom Robbins
I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation-with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavors look interesting and lively; that was merely… — Bill Bryson
whose steps were a restless substitute for flight. — Ayn Rand
But often, in the worldâ€™s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our… — Matthew Arnold
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion… — Flann O'Brien
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift… — H P Lovecraft
The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but… — Nancy Farmer
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all… — Marisha Pessl
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual… — Soren Kierkegaard

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