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Quotes About Restless

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Something bright and alien flashed across the sky... and for a moment people set down their glasses in country clubs and speakeasies and thought of their old best dreams. Maybe there was a way out by flying, maybe our restless blood could find frontiers in the illimitable air. But by that time we were all pretty well committed; and the Jazz Age continued; we would all have one more.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tom, I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You've a place in my heart no one else ever could have, but tied down here I'd get restless. I'd feel I was—wastin' myself. There's two sides to me, you see. There's the sleepy old side you love; an' there's a sort of energy—the feelin' that makes me do wild things. That's the part of me that may be useful somewhere, that'll last when I'm not beautiful any more." She
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
T hey were both restless in the night. In a day or two Dick would try to banish the ghost of Rosemary before it became walled up with them, but for the moment he had no force to do it. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ich bin es müde, geträumt zu haben, freilich nicht müde zu träumen.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Whole months have passed during which I haven't lived, but have merely endured, caught between the office and physiology, marooned in an inner stagnation of thinking and feeling. Alas, this is not a restful state to be in, for putrefaction inevitably involves fermentation.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Quem tem alma não tem calma
~ Fernando Pessoa
The restless anguish of regrets, The weariness caused by so much futility, The surfeit even of imagined things
~ Fernando Pessoa
He wondered if she walked at night and came there ever—came with that look on her face, unrested and looking, going up the path and through the barn open all around and stopping in the shadow by the store boarded up, coming on unrested with that look on her face like he had seen through the crack going down.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I'm not someone who feels settled.
~ Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I was very restless, but finally I found my way.
~ Emma Bonino
I am a terrible sleeper.
~ Matt Smith
But the Central Federation of Amalgamated Females was to deliver a more deadly blow at man than any yet attempted, a blow that for cruelty and audacity remains unparalleled in the annals of that restless sex. As
~ Robert W. Chambers
Houses are like people. They have memories, and energy. They wait. They wilt from neglect. They sicken and decay. They haunt, and they are haunted. This house was a too big, rambling old place, populated by restless ghosts and bad memories. It seemed to rise out of the trees as we grew closer.
~ Lisa Unger
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
~ Louisa May Alcott
purpose and principle are the best teachers we can have, and the want of them makes half the women of America what they are, restless, aimless, frivolous, and sick.
~ Louisa May Alcott
For purpose and principle are the best teachers we can have, and the want of them makes half the women of America what they are, restless, aimless, frivolous, and sick.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Sanguines are usually graceful and full of life. They notice and respond to everything and everyone in their environment. They move quickly from one impression or experience to the next and rarely remain with anything for long. They can therefore be restless, distractible, or fickle. Sanguines tend to be sociable, for they are personable, vivacious, and light-hearted.
~ Rudolf Steiner
It was a lovely starlight night—they had just reached the top of the hill Villejuif, from whence Paris appears like a sombre sea tossing its millions of phosphoric waves into light—waves indeed more noisy, more passionate, more changeable, more furious, more greedy, than those of the tempestuous ocean,—waves which never rest as those of the sea sometimes do,—waves ever dashing, ever foaming, ever ingulfing what falls within their grasp.
~ Alexandre Dumas