Quotes About Restlessness

When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work.

The need for speed and newness, which can only be satisfied by consumerism, reflects restlessness, the inner flight from oneself.

Significant changes in the psychological atmosphere accompanied the economic development of capitalism. A spirit of restlessness began to pervade life toward the end of the Middle Ages. The concept of time in the modern sense began to develop. Minutes became valuable [...]. Too many holidays began to appear as a misfortune. Time was so valuable that on felt one should never spend it for any purpose which was not useful. Work became increasingly a supreme value.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.

All I wanted to do now was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

M? tulbur? atât de tare, încât nu îmi voi mai g?si niciodat? locul.

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.

Those of us prone to sleeplessness can always tell. We can read the great curve of the night as it arcs toward day. We've lived every minute of every dark hour in excruciating detail.

Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

I have been aware of a boredom, a restlessness, that no ordinary friendship can satisfy: only an extraordinary one.

I have been aware of a boredom, a restlessness, that no ordinary friendship can satisfy: only and extraordinary one.

He was so restless and he had so much energy, but it was destructive. Like it wasn't the sort of energy that got walls painted or the house cleaned. He just prowled like a lion in a cage.

Ramona wasn't at home anywhere. She felt like a spy in life and the ending of every great book and each orgasm, and the sight of every homeless shopping bag lady infected her with a titanic yearning for the world to make an unscheduled stop.

It doesn't matter what I'm doing - I wish it was something else. If I'm producing, I wish I was directing. If I'm directing, I wish I was doing almost anything else!

I've always really enjoyed writing different things because I get bored very easily.

I'm just coming to terms with the fact that I will always do lots of different things and I can't really stay in one place too long.

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.

My insomnia stretched to months. When I did sleep, it was with the aid of a pill, but even that did not prevent the nightmares

organizations that spread and sustain excellence are infused with a "relentless restlessness"—that often uncomfortable urge for constant innovation, driven by the nagging feeling that things are never quite good enough.