Quotes About Restlessness

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

At night when I can't sleep, I play blackjack online until I get tired or I lose my money.

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

Sleepless nights I'm not a big fan of to be honest.

To be honest, I really can't lie on the beach for more than an hour.

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.

I was always being told to calm down, to chill out, to slow down. I was a bad toddler, I was a bad child, I was a bad teenager.

I don't like to sit still for long at all, which has probably helped me along the way, and partly why I was drawn to the heat of a restaurant kitchen. The rush of service means that you're always on your toes and keeps a chef pretty active.

There was nothing to do and not enough time to do nothing in.

It is hard to swerve Ocean and Sky from their deepest desires.

In the January that I turned thirty-five, sleep became a foreign and hostile country. I had never been more than what one might call a refugee in the country of sleep;

now i begin to feel a longing so great, so sharp, i fear it will never be assuaged. i think it will mount, and mount, and make me mad, or kill me.

The fitful sleeping makes the hours pass slowly; it seems to me the night has many nights in it?has years of nights!?through which, as if through drifts of smoke, I am compelled to stumble.

We rush to escape what makes us anxious, which makes us anxious, and so we rush some more.

The mind is the most restless, unruly part of mankind.

Always my soul hungered for less than it had. T. E. LAWRENCE, SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM

Studies have been shown that people with creative minds find it harder to fall asleep at night and prefer to stay up later.

We only foolishly think there's some set of circumstances, some person, some relationship, some change in our world, some sensual experience that can satisfy the restlessness in our hearts. But we're made for you, Jesus—designed to be fulfilled and completed only by you. You are the most loving and tender bridegroom who cherishes a most unlikely and ill-deserving bride.

When God blesses our hearts with boredom, discontent, anxiety, emptiness, or restlessness, he loves us well. For his goal is to wean our wayward hearts away from things that hold no ultimate satisfaction.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.

I love L.A. I always have such a great time in L.A. The way I kind of define me and L.A. is the noise of the factory doesn't let me sleep well.