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Quotes About Restless

Je porte en moi une âme corrompue par le monde, une imagination inquiète, un cÅ"ur insatiable; pour moi tout est petit : je m'habitue au chagrin aussi facilement qu'au plaisir, et ma vie devient plus vaine de jour en jour.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
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
water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.' Who
~ Bram Stoker
Sighing restlessly, the boundless sea broke huge rollers into white cream which hissed hungrily up to the tideline.
~ Brian Jacques
As she grew older, Erin accepted the fact that her mother was a restless gold digger who would never be happy, never be satisfied. On the other hand, her husbands knew exactly what they were getting and didn't seem to care. It taught Erin one of life's great lessons: an attractive woman could get whatever she wanted, because men were so laughably weak.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.
~ Lord Mountbatten
A song will keep going round in my brain and keep me awake.
~ Norah Jones
My heart has jet lag.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I'm restless, bored, and invisible. A dangerous thing for any woman to be.
~ Karen Marie Moning
as jittery as a caffeine addict outside a closed Starbucks.
~ Karen Robards
There is an unease in you, too, which I sensed. You remind me of an anchor searching for a spot to latch on to.
~ Karen White
Thus we are driven, lost souls, from camp-fire flame to camp-fire flame, know nothing of our next rest and nothing of the journey's aim
~ Karin Boye
Maybe the spirits don't want to be quieted.
~ Kate Constable
Chapter 1 In the bitter cold of a late December night, the gargoyle's sharp gaze scanned restlessly over the deserted streets of Dublin. Not far below, the clock in the tower of St. Patrick's Cathedral began to strike midnight. The sound of the bell reverberated on a breeze brittle with the promise of snow, skittering among the city's chimneys and across frost-kissed slate roofs. Very soon, the rhythm was picked up by other clocks elsewhere in the sleeping city.
~ Katherine Kurtz
Abitha is dead, they killed her, all that is left is wrath and malice … my restless soul. Do you understand?
~ Brom
My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
~ Buffalo Bill
tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
~ Herman Melville
And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea
~ Herman Melville
I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
~ Herman Melville
Thinking, thinking—a wheel I cannot stop; pure want of sleep it is that turns it.
~ Herman Melville
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles—a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other—that kept me going.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
~ Hunter S. Thompson