Restless Quotes

357 quotes by 314 authors

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and… — Anais Nin
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically. — Rabindranath Tagore
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I… — Paulo Coelho
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:… — John Green
His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body. — Haruki Murakami
Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time… — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced… — Daphne du Maurier
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room?… — Octavio Paz
When you step outside of school and have to teach yourself about life, you develop a different relationship to information. I've never been a purely… — Jay-Z
Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They… — Holly Black
The end-of-summer winds make people restless. — Sebastian Faulks
...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist… — Gunter Grass
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren… — Federico Garcia Lorca
â€¦You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know. — Patrick deWitt
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse,… — Walter Isaacson
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar… — Elizabeth Gaskell
If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm… — Kazuo Ishiguro

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