Quotes About Restlessness

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find a home in the ordinary world, sanctuaries for those whom Baudelaire might have dignified with the honorific 'poets'.

He once fantasized that his worries would be stilled if he lived elsewhere, if he attained a few professional goals, if he had a family. But nothing has ever made a difference. He is, he can see, anxious to the core, in his most basic make-up: a frightened, ill-adjusted creature.

Discontent is the initial motivation to becoming content. Let restlessness propel you to your right place. Your experience of "not it" amplifies your intention to find "it," and you surely will.

Bed-sheet creases print a river delta on Mick's back and in his restlessness it strikes him that civilisation and its history are similarly bagatelles, deluded into thinking that their progress has the ordered logic of a chess match when it's more the random ping of Tiddlywinks.

She had once loved sleep, had looked forward to being swallowed up by her slumber every night, but now sleep was something she chased. It was a furtive little animal that, even when caught, wriggled and scratched to free itself.

I'm in my junior year but I can't take it anymore. The beige walls, the scent of linoleum and used lockers, the shrill bell between classes. High school is sucking the life out of me.

It was so unlike her not to be able to sleep. No matter what was going on, she was usually out the second her head hit the pillow.

Sleep was not a friend these days. It was just the waiting period between nightmares.

Worrying was like sitting in a rocking chair—all that work and no progress.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

Cum de pot oare animalele, care nu È™tiu ce înseamn? s? fii condamnat la solitudine, s? se joace singure, iar omul nu poate, È™i, dac? încearc? s-o fac?, îl cuprinde curând o neliniÈ™te È™i mai mare?

Da qualche tempo infatti un'ansia, che lui non sapeva capire, lo inseguiva senza riposo: l'impressione di non fare in tempo, che qualche cosa di importante sarebbe successo e l'avrebbe colto di sorpresa. [...] Di giorno in giorno Drogo rimandava la decisione, si sentiva del resto ancora giovane, appena venticinque anni. Quell'ansia sottile lo inseguiva tuttavia senza riposo, [...].

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

The creative person finds himself in a state of turmoil, restlessness, emptiness, and unbearable frustration unless he expresses his inner life in some creative way.

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

At night when I'm lying awake because my brain won't shut off due to all there is to think about.

Although I'm tired, and it feels like years since I had a good night's rest, I can't bring myself to fall asleep. It's like I've forgotten how.

Someone like him could never be content staying at home and watching a movie on the couch.

My whole body ached. I opened all the windows in my room and lay in the dark, just listening to the ocean. I wished the tide would carry me out and never bring me back.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.