Restlessness Quotes

107 quotes by 87 authors

Americans have a taste forâ€¦rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? — William Shakespeare
My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Toska - noun /ËˆtÅ-skÉ™/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night… — Isabel Allende
I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut… — Dodie Smith
I had seen ardency in men's eyes, but I had only felt it once. With Flauvic, false and therefore easy to dismiss. I suddenly wished… — Sherwood Smith
Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as… — Maggie O'Farrell
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well… — Pema Chodron
The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the… — Meindert DeJong
The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed… — Brendon Burchard
It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out romantically,… — Louise GluÌˆck
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering… — C.S. Lewis
Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed. — Pema Chodron
All of them had a restlessness in common. — John Steinbeck
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering… — C.S. Lewis
If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. — Robert M. Pirsig
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose. — Edmund Clowney
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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