Quotes About Restless

Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

feels like i'm 'seething' with the inability to sleep…

Man is a restless creature, nomadic at heart.

As anyone who has struggled with insomnia knows, trying to force sleep is at best a hopeless business. Slumber is unimpressed by suitors.

Yo jamás descanso –pensó Saulo–.

My attention span is all over the place, and I overthink things. I'm an insomniac.

Spirits want to be heard. That's why they're not at rest.

As I've grown older, I have begun to marvel... at how much of my life I have spent among ghosts. These are no malevolent presences... Rather, they are such restless spirits as only the strange twentieth-century cocktail of celebrity, technology and collective memory could produce.

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

His role, in the end, had been reduced to this one thing: sitting in the corner of meeting rooms or lurking on corporate email lists, seeming not to pay attention, growing ever more restless and surly until he blurted something out that offended a lot of people and caused the company to change course. Only later did they see the shoals on which they would have run aground if not for Richard's startling and grumpy intervention.

I didn't go to sleep until four, but I was in some one else's house, so I woke up early—at eight—with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else's-house energy.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

I get restless of the night.

I realized my sorrow, the regret of a restless, doomed spirit, rang in my voice. For the first time I wondered if my fate was to helplessly watch violence until I became as mad as the men who committed the murders.

And stop with that cute little grin you always get in your mind. You think you can get around me with it, but you can't." He tugged at her arm, his black eyes restless, searching the forest around them. He could still feel the dark malevolence through Shea. "I can always get around you, little red hair," he answered tenderly. "You are not capable of holding a grudge.

He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

But the Nation had already become restless and discouraged at the prolongation of the war, and many believed that it would never terminate except by compromise.

Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.

I shared in the boom. I was energetic in my own modest way. But I was also restless. You so quickly get used to peace. It is like being well – you take it for granted, and forget that when you were ill to be well again had seemed everything. And with peace and the boom I began to see the town as ordinary, for the first time.

Quando molte sensazioni hanno agitato la giornata, quando qualcosa preoccupa la mente, ci si addormenta, sì, ma non ci si riaddormenta. Il sonno può venire, ma difficilmente può ritornare.

We have only to look at some men to distrust them, for we feel the darkness of their souls in two ways. They are restless as to what is behind them, and threatening as to what is before them. They are full of mystery. We can no more answer for what they have done, than for what they will do. The shadow in their looks denounces them. If we hear them utter a word, or see them make a gesture, we catch glimpses of guilty secrets in their past, and dark mysteries in their future.

When each earthly brace falls under, And life seems a restless sea, Are you then a God-held wonder, Satisfied and calm and free?

There was no drawer she could put them in to give herself a rest, no hook she could tie their tethers to, to keep them in the world.