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Quotes About Restless

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.
~ Henry Rollins
I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.
~ Matt Damon
God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.
~ Jonathan Jackson
Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Then we're all restless, Withal, because at the very heart, none of us know where we came from. Or where we're going.
~ Steven Erikson
But Raraku defied every season. Raraku itself was eternal in its momentousness, perpetually awaiting rebirth. Patience in the stone, in the restless, ever-murmuring sands.
~ Steven Erikson
We others are not like you. We are more prickly, more jittery, more restless, more secretive, more desperate, more cowardly, more bold. We live at the edges of ourselves, not in the middle places. We leave that to you.
~ Steven Millhauser
I hate it when my leg falls asleep. I know that means it's going to be up all night.
~ Steven Wright
Caradore was not at rest. Ghosts walked there unseen: the shade of a younger, more innocent Valraven, Ellony, Thomist, Pharinet's parents, and even Khaster, although he had not lived there. His shade would be beautiful, sensitive and mournful.
~ Storm Constantine
Love did not suit her. Her face was not made for dreamy expressions, and her long, restless body did not fit comfortably into postures of romantic languor.
~ Storm Constantine
A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.
~ Suketu Mehta
Last night, lost in spaces between star—bays and lakes of clouds, I tossed and turned looking for you
~ John Geddes
The torture is in the anticipation – the unknown, the restless sleep, insuppressible urge.
~ Leia Castle
...I'm constantly agitated, restless - I work moments like worry beads until I see your face...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.
~ Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
I have slept so many times you might think I would really be awake by now
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
I told her I felt kind of restless about the new poetry and I had high hopes the new poetry one way or another would be able to get at the real stuff of American life, slipping its fingers into the steel meshes and copper coils of it under the streets and over the houses and people and factories and groceries, conceding a fair batting average to Dante and Keats for what they wrote about love and roses and the moon.
~ Carl Sandburg
Sometimes on just gets tired of fleeing, said Fermín. The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I am hungry for something to do, somewhere to go.
~ Cecelia Ahern
I got a restless mentality, I got to move around.
~ Riff Raff
I'm a person who cannot be doing nothing. I have a deficit. In Mexico, we say 'hiperactivo' - hyperactive. I am hyperactive!
~ Javier Hernandez
I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death. And the cause of this, is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight, than he has already attained to; or that he cannot be content with a moderate power: but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well, which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I put for a general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power, that ceases only in death
~ Thomas Hobbes