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Quotes About Restlessness

It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of impatience that they do not return.
~ Franz Kafka
You aren't tired at all, just restless, just afraid of taking one step on this Earth teeming with pitfalls, which is why you always keep both feet in the air at once, you aren't tired, just afraid of the terrible fatigue which will follow this terrible restlessness ...
~ Franz Kafka
As happiness recedes into dreams, the passion ended where it began: in sleepness.
~ Franz Kafka
But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while on lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
~ Franz Kafka
Kein Schlaf; nur Träume.
~ Franz Kafka
de no estar empeñado en la búsqueda, esto me daría sueño.
~ Franz Kafka
There are two cardinal human sins from which all others derive: impatience and indolence.
~ Franz Kafka
But sleep? On a night like this? What an idea! Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.
~ Franz Kafka
So hätte der Trapezkünstler ungestört leben können, wären nicht die unvermeidlichen Reisen von Ort zu Ort gewesen, die ihm äußerst lästig waren. Zwar sorgte der Impresario dafür, daß der Trapezkünstler von jeder unnötigen Verlängerung seiner Leiden verschont blieb: für die Fahrten in den Städten
~ Franz Kafka
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
~ Thomas A. Edison
My restlessness leaves my mind racing as I try to wind down at the end of mandatory recovery day. It keeps me tossing after poor performances. And if I played well, well... playing well makes me itch to play better; there is always room for improvement.
~ Christen Press
I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!
~ Camille Claudel
I have a half an hour window that if I don't go to sleep in that time frame I am up all night.
~ Gemma Collins
The hardest thing about 'Strictly' is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.
~ Darcey Bussell
The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.
~ Julie Klausner
That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
~ Hannah Gadsby
You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
~ Pat Robertson
Omigod, I'm so bored I could shoot myself in the head with a knife.
~ Robyn Schneider
Once again, my hands itched for my phone. My mom always complained I was addicted to the thing, but this wasn't true; I just didn't like sitting around with nothing to do, wasting time instead of spending it.
~ Robyn Schneider
The Sinhalese were perplexed by their endemic restlessness and their eating habits, declaring the Portuguese to be "a very white and beautiful people, who wear hats and boots of iron and never stop in one place. They eat a sort of white stone and drink blood." Such
~ Roger Crowley
Lottavo contro il sonno, che è sempre un po' ladro.
~ Romain Gary
Of course her mind was never a hundred per cent at rest, because for that you've got to be dead. Life is always a panic.
~ Romain Gary, Émile Ajar
But when man confronts the restlessness of his intellect and is caught in the whirl of modern life, he loses all relation to the Rosary.
~ Romano Guardini
Temptation is a slower process and you'll feel it more in the morning just after waking and in the evening, when you are at loose ends, tired, and yet not ready to fall asleep.
~ Louise Erdrich