Restlessness Quotes
31 quotes
"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 holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached."
"I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."
"In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone."
"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 restlessness of the soul came to him."
"...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still."
"When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone."
"Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage."
"When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long."
"From that first moment of doubt, there was no peace for her; from the time she first imagined leaving her forest, she could not stand in one place without wanting to be somewhere else. She trotted up and down beside her pool, restless and unhappy. Unicorns are not meant to make choices. She said no, and yes, and no again, day and night, and for the first time she began to feel the minutes crawling over her like worms."
"Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case."
"The Open Road goes to the used-car lot."
"Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless."
"If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within."
"When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need."
"Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk."
Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
"Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance."
"It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped."
"You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix."
"My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest."
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
"I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me."
"How art thou out of breath when thou hast breathTo say to me that thou art out of breath?"
"But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed."
"When I rode the train west,I went looking for something,but I didn't see anything wonderful.I didn't see anything better than what I already had.Home."
"The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising."
"Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances."
"You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else."
"No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow."
"Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away."
"States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"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 whistle—it is in you."