Quotes About Restlessness

Un corazón inquieto es la base del peregrinar. En el ser humano habita un ansia». SAN AGUSTÍN

Anyway, what can one do here? I am seriously thinking of running away and joining the Foreign Legion or the North-West Mounted Police—whichever work the shorter hours.

Although she seemed to be enjoying the party, even to the extent of being in sight of hysteria, she had evidently also reached the stage when moving to another spot had become an absolute necessity to her; not because she was in any way dissatisfied with the surroundings in which she found herself, but on account of the coercive dictation of her own nerves, not to be denied in their insistence that a change of scene must take place.

Can it be so? Can I again enjoy my pure, free will, my own unfettered thoughts: and wake once more to life's delicious perils? Can it be so? And yet what ails me now, that I am restless as a captive bird, and feel myself a slave? Do I not love him fondly as heroine ever loved her hero? Truly I love him, know his virtues well, honour him above all men. He is one, on whose kind breast a woman's tenderness and timid love may safely lean for shelter.

Until an effort is made to satisfy that wish, the sense of uneasy waiting for something to start which has not started will remain to disturb the peace of the soul.

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

How weary one gets of this constant pounding, Theodora said ridiculously. Next summer, I must really go somewhere else. There are disadvantages everywhere, Like told her. In the lake regions you get mosquitoes.

inquietud que tan a menudo acompaña los incesantes dolores de la reflexión.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.

It is an unimaginatively standardized background, a sluggishness of speech and manners, a rigid ruling of the spirit by the desire to appear respectable. It is contentment . . . the contentment of quiet dead, who are scornful of the living for their restless walking. It is negation canonized as the one positive virtue. It is the prohibition of happiness. It is dullness made God.

There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

In his mind he was always leaving, always going somewhere, always doing something else.

In the terms of 'Mental Illness' Isn't stable a place they put horses that wish to run free?

Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming

What hath night to do with sleep?

Because somewhere in that plain of childhood time must have been planted the seeds of the restlessness.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

It was terrible to have that much nervous energy and nothing to do with it.

Men are not forced to turn their desolation to advantage as women are. It's easier for them to dissipate their passion, quell their restlessness in other ways.

can't do it while caught in this half-life!

A mí ahora, hiperactiva, prolífica, con voluntad para meterme en negocios raros que me enriquezcan una vida que siento que se me va a quedar corta.

Perhaps one of the reasons why God chooses to leave us in this terribly broken world with its various disappointments is to create in our souls a certain dissatisfaction, an insatiable hunger for home.