Weariness Quotes

136 quotes by 117 authors

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there… — John Calvin
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went along there were… — Dorothy Wordsworth
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring,… — Watchman Nee
When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness… — Byron Katie
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to… — Bertrand Russell
Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest… — Thomas Adams
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. — Michel de Montaigne
Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few… — Bertrand Russell
When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and… — Dag Hammarskjold
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid… — Joyce Carol Oates
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
O You who are mad about Your creature! true God and true Man, You have left Yourself wholly to us, as food, so that we… — St. Catherine of Siena
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague… — Bernard Bolzano
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a… — George Eliot
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works… — D. H. Lawrence
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits… — Herman Melville
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or… — Paul Valery

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