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Quotes About Restless

All day the blanket snapped and swelled on the line, roused by a hot spring wind.... From there it witnessed the first sparrow, early flies lifting their sticky feet, and a green haze on the south-sloping hills. Clouds rose over the mountain....At dusk I took the blanket in, and we slept, restless, under its fragrant weight.
~ Jane Kenyon
I cannot sleep a wink.
~ Alexander Pope
I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than sleep.
~ Vera Rubin
I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.
~ Laurie Holden
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
~ Leni Riefenstahl
In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
~ Rich Lowry
I need a coaching job in the NBA. I'm restless and I need money.
~ Robert Parish
I am never going to be able to rest easy in having established a posthumous connection to my father. I'll always be groping for what I can't have.
~ George Packer
The sea does not like to be restrained.
~ Rick Riordan
He's a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,' Nico said. 'The last few years, he's been my driver whenever I need one.' 'You have a zombie chauffeur,' Leila said.
~ Rick Riordan
Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than being willful, angry, irrational or simply tiresome.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
It is not an illness that lends itself to easy empathy. Once a restless or frayed mood has turned to anger, or violence, or psychosis, Richard, like most, finds it very difficult to see it as illness, rather than as being willful, angry, irrational, or simply tiresome.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
This country awakens so many memories, though each seems like some restless sparrow I know will flee any moment into the breeze.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
The intruder finished in the living room and went into the bedroom. More searching. Now Daniel was the one getting restless, fidgeting and shifting. When I tried to pull away to give him room, he jumped like I'd startled him, then murmured, "Just relax," like I'd been the one fussing.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We have familiar experience of the order, the constancy, the perpetual renovation of the material world which surrounds us. Frail and transitory as is every part of it, restless and migratory as are its elements, still it abides. It is bound together by a law of permanence, and though it is ever dying, it is ever coming to life again. Dissolution does but give birth to fresh modes of organization, and one death is the parent of a thousand lives.
~ William Peter Blatty
Karl met the eyes that were shifting hardness, that were haggard wells of pain and blame; glimpsed briefly the dissolute bending of the lips and the ravaged face of a youth and a beauty buried alive in a thousand motel rooms, in a thousand awakenings from restless sleep with a stifled cry at remembered grace.
~ William Peter Blatty
the early months, baby's sleep cycles are shorter, periods of light sleep occur more frequently, and the vulnerable period for night waking occurs twice as often as for an adult, approximately every hour. Most restless nights are due to difficulty getting back to sleep after waking up during this vulnerable period. Some babies have trouble reentering another stage of deep sleep.
~ William Sears
I have not slept one wink.
~ William Shakespeare
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied, settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find the best of what will be.
~ William Shakespeare
Well, long way from home and, Can't sleep at all. You know another mule, Is kickin in your stall.
~ Willie Dixon
No restless, quick, flame-like ego is imagined for the inside of it. It has no inside.
~ Wyndham Lewis
get like this sometimes—I get agitated when I feel
~ David Pocock
Kennedy, he gushed, was "graceful, gay, funny, witty, teasing and teasable, forgiving, hungry, incapable of being corny, restless, interesting, interested, exuberant, blunt, profane, and loving.
~ David Talbot
But the timing of his demise only added to the sensationalist stories, and rumors began to circulate of a curse placed upon the expedition by the restless spirit of the disturbed princess.
~ Deanna Raybourn