Quotes About Restless

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

Right now, with the taste of Muire's life hot on his lips, filling him with a restless passion, the temptation is unbearable.

I couldn't think, couldn't reason. I certainly couldn't sleep reliably, or for long.

A wild, sleepless sorrow hovered inside my chest.

Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting's sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.

I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.

I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort of ecstasy; it is in winter, when the biologists tell us they sleep, that they are most awake, because the sun is gone and they are addicts without their drug, sleeping restlessly and often waking, walking the dark corridors of forests searching for the sun.

Undines are the elemental spirits of water, the word undine being derived from unda, wave. Like all elemental spirits, they partake of the character of their element, so undines are beautiful, restless, and suffocating.

It was so hot we spent our waking hours dozing and our sleeping hours lying awake, trying to sleep.

There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.

My creative powers have been reduced to a restless indolence. I cannot be idle, yet I cannot seem to do anything either. I have no imagination, no more feeling for nature, and reading has become repugnant to me. When we are robbed of ourselves, we are robbed of everything.

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion…. A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

The soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay With courage to behold the restless day, And count it fair.

The young might have been restless around any primal fire where an elder was saying, Know this. Certainly they would have been restless. Their bodies were consumed with the business of lengthening limbs, sprouting hair, fitting themselves for procreation.

Our life seems cursed to be a wriggle merely, and a wandering without end.

So I was put into the bed and still felt bolnoy but could not sleep, but soon I started to feel that soon I might start to feel that I might soon start feeling just a malenky bit better.

Oh, I can't tell you. She looks like a beautiful animal that you are afraid to caress for fear it should bite you; — an animal that would be beautiful if its eyes were not so restless, and its teeth so sharp and so white.

And on far-off Earth, Dr. Carlisle Perera had as yet told no one how he had wakened from a restless sleep with the message from his subconscious still echoing in his brain: The Ramans do everything in threes.

A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken.

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies