Quotes About Restlessness

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

I can't sleep without the TV on. It doesn't matter where it is. I don't like silence. My ears ring from loud music.

As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.

Man is by nature restless. When left too long in one place he will inevitably grow bored, unmotivated, and unproductive.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.

He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will find restlessness and apprehension.

Riches have never yet given anybody either peace or rest.

Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.

Any expectation, even the expectation of peace, brings restlessness. The tension has to go. As soon as this happens a divine peace sets in.

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

Eventually we all get tired of any and everything!

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

If you cannot sleep, put the sacred energy to use. You can pray, read and write.

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something--something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

Reading is a respite from the restlessness of technology, but it's not only that. It's how I reset and recharge. It's how I escape, but it's also how I engage. And reading should spur further engagement.