Quotes About Agitation

Someone who remains satisfied with the superficial pleasures of life is ignorant of the agitation deep within the mind. He is under the illusion that he is a happy person, but his pleasures are not lasting, and the tensions generated in the unconscious keep increasing, to appear sooner or later at the conscious level of the mind. When they do, this so-called happy person becomes miserable. So why not start working here and now to avert that situation?

Women probably find him sweet. Me, I just want to pull the pin on a grenade.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

Heitor sipped his tea, a dainty counterpoint to the violent topic.

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I'm not very good at sitting still.

I'm not very good with stills. I get all twitchy.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious.

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

You have heard tales of the 'jacquerie' beginning in the villages?

Ruth Varnum was always as nervous as a rat; and, come to think of

Violence! Violence!

There was the stench of kerosene and burning tires wafting through the air. It was only a matter of time before the rubber smell would be replaced with that of flesh.

E ora cosa farò?" si domandava il ragazzo; ogni volta che osservava la mobilità e la continua agitazione della vita, la propria inerzia gli incuteva spavento.

Behold space trembling like a great madman.

En los tumultos populares hay siempre cierto número de hombres que, o por acaloramiento de pasión, o por persuasión fanática, o por un designio malvado, o por un perverso gusto del desorden, hacen todo lo posible por llevar las cosas al peor extremo; proponen o promueven los consejos más despiadados, soplan en el fuego cada vez que empieza a languidecer: nunca es demasiado para ellos; no querrían que el tumulto tuviera fin ni medida.

Tra tanti appassionati, c'eran pure alcuni più di sangue freddo, i quali stavano osservando con molto piacere, che l'acqua s'andava intorbidando; e s'ingegnavano d'intorbidirla di più, con que' ragionamenti, e con quelle storie che i furbi sanno comporre, e che gli animi alterati sanno credere; e si proponevano di non lasciarla posare quell'acqua, senza farci un po' di pesca.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

It's weird to sit as a comedian. Being still drives me crazy.

I'm never comfortable.