Quotes About Restlessness

I was terrible at desk jobs.

The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

I apparently didn't believe in sleep, either, because I didn't get much of it that night.

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.

Na puchh ai hamnashin hamse shabe furqat ki betabi Alam hai darde hasrat hai fana hai ahozzari hai

When you've lived in a cage, you can't bear not to run, even if what you're running towards is an illusion.

Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

Most human restlessness and pain is the result of the Spirit's incessant demand that humans live from the deepest part of their being.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

He is capable of turning everything into anything--snow into skin, skin into blossoms, blossoms into sugar, sugar into powder, and powder back into little drifts of snow--for all that matters to him, apparently, is to make things into what they are not, which is doubtless proof that he cannot stand being anywhere for long, wherever he happens to be.

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

I never see a ship sailing out of the channel, or a gull soaring over the sand-bar, without wishing I were on board the ship or had wings, not like a dove 'to fly away and be at rest,' but like a gull, to sweep out into the very heart of the storm.

You've been lying awake at three o'clock too long, said Barney, shaking her. That's all that's the matter with you. Love you! Oh, don't I love you!

The merry-go-round is spinning too fast. I want to get off. I want to close my eyes, or just blink.

It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.

It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.

I don't sleep, have not slept in sixteen years—

He sits all day on the terrace of the Brokers' Club watching women pass, with the restless eye of someone endlessly shuffling through an old soiled pack of cards.

Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.

Life has been so meagre, so insipid, so intolerably dull to eager and high-spirited souls!

A heavy slumber enlocked his body; but, as always with men who have long deprived themselves of sleep, he could not sleep at once.