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Quotes About Weariness

The weary guests are asked to leave the warmth of the all-night theater, having slept on pictures others only dream on.
~ Unknown
Below his tired eyes there were deep smoke-colored shadows, and two wrinkles ran down his cheeks as if they were tracks made by tears.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
She was tired and in no mood for anyone's similes but her own.
~ Tove Jansson
I am you, one day out of five, Tired, empty, hating what I carry But afraid to lay it down, stingy, Angry, doing violence to others By the sheer freight of my gloom, Halfway home, wanting to stop, to quit But keeping going mostly out of spite.
~ Tracy K. Smith
I'm tired of fighting … I can't fight any more." Those were his last words.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
~ Paul Bowles
Duša je najumorniji dio tijela.
~ Paul Bowles
So We'll Go No More a-Roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul outwears the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a-roving By the light of the moon.
~ Unknown
she looked a hundred years older, as stale and ruined as yesterday's oatmeal.
~ Paul Theroux
That's because like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
~ Paulo Coelho
Like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesn't teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older.
~ Paulo Coelho
Alice opened the door when I rang. She had on green pyjamas and held a hairbrush in one hand. She looked wearily at Quinn and spoke wearily: Bring it in. I took it in and spread it on a bed. It mumbled something I could not make out and moved one hand feebly back and forth, but its eyes stayed shut.
~ Dashiell Hammett
First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!
~ Dave Eggers
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
~ David Foster Wallace
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
~ William Shakespeare
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
~ William Shakespeare
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm bored with it all. - Last Words
~ Winston Churchill
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love--but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
~ Yann Martel
Oh, living is so uncomfortable. Everything presses in: the body demands, the spirit never ceases, living is like being weary but being unable to sleep–living is upsetting. You can't walk around naked, either in body or in spirit.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am absolutely tired of literature; only muteness keeps me company.
~ Clarice Lispector
La cama blanquecina nadando en la oscuridad. El cansancio arrastrándose por su cuerpo
~ Clarice Lispector
For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us.
~ Hesiod