Quotes About Restlessness

He'd been unhappy, restless, irritable since leaving Surrey. He'd lived on memories of her. Her absence slowly strangled him. The instant he took Antonia in his arms, he breathed again.

Night is the worst time, when her vitality sinks to its lowest ebb and she's frightened of everything. Unable to read or do anything else, she wanders about the house like a woman living with ghosts, who can't find the way or the will to return to the living world.

I cannot close my eyes, fear stands over me instead of sleep.

Certainly a curtain has never fallen too soon for me. Every play is too long, even the short ones. Every concert, every film, every television programme the same.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Here at the age of thirty-nine I began to be old. I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers; I regularly drank three glasses of gin before dinner, never more or less, and went to bed immediately after the nine o'clock news. I was always awake and fretful an hour before reveille. Here my last love died.

I'm tres old and tres bored, Tom, said Amory one day, stretching himself at ease in the comfortable window-seat. He always felt most natural in a recumbent position.

I can't exactly describe how I feel but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad—early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes.

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game

Tom, I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

He was born sleepless, without a talent for rest or the desire for it.

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.

Why they came east I don't know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together. This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it—I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.

Why they came east I don't know. They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

there were no dreams, no dreams to haunt him.

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.

Não aspiro a nada. Dói-me a vida. Estou mal onde estou e já mal onde penso em poder estar.