Restlessness Quotes

107 quotes by 87 authors

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat… — Edgar Lee Masters
You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't… — Pat Robertson
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. — John Ruskin
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees,… — Mother Teresa
We all have restlessness in long-term relationships. — Helen Fisher
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of… — Steve Almond
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city… — Elwyn Brooks White
So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one,… — Pema Chodron
[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels… — Robin McKinley
The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was. — Kurt Vonnegut
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external… — Pope John Paul II
Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours — Slash
But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I… — Amy Tan
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. — Charlotte Bronte
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing… — Fernando Pessoa
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness. — Dodie Smith
In a way, her strangeness, her naivetÃ©, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle imagination. Had she… — Toni Morrison
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a… — Hermann Hesse
Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my… — Charlotte Bronte
Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully… — Elisabeth Elliot

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