Possession Quote by John Ruskin

“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”

— John Ruskin

It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is…

— John Ruskin

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

— Franz Grillparzer

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that…

— Bertrand Russell

“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth turn into…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation…

— William Butler Yeats

There is a note that comes into the human voice by which you may know real weariness. It comes when one has been trying…

— Sherwood Anderson

“Lonely Balcony The deterioration brought by weariness was visible. Its burden of abandonment can be perceived at a glance. The balcony ache with longings.…

— iqra iqbal

“The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy.”

— Paul E. Miller

Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark…

— Robert Frost

“There is no weariness in worship.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a…

— Erich Maria Remarque