Unquiet Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man…
— Thomas de Quincey
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Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
— John Calvin
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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very…
— John Calvin
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Given is the word. Given publicly, on the first Good Friday, on a hill, in the sight of all, was the visible demonstration of the…
— Muriel Lester
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Mutt enjoyed traveling by car, but he was an unquiet passenger. He suffered from the delusion, common to dogs and small boys, that when he…
— Farley Mowat
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[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.
— Samuel Johnson
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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of…
— Francis Bacon
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all…
— Pliny the Elder
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Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.
— Matthew Arnold
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
— Salman Rushdie
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In the life of a man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his sense a dim rushlight, his body a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the…
— Emily Bronte
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know,…
— Rachel Caine
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wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
— Emily Bronte
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Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.
— David Levithan
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That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart,…
— Jürgen Moltmann
Who Wrote These Unquiet Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 18 Unquiet Quotes as follows: