Quotes About Restlessness

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.

People need external activity because they have no internal activity... [Hence] the restlessness of those who have nothing to do, and their aimless traveling. What drives them from country to country is the same boredom which at home drives them together into such crowds and heaps it is funny to see.

He sensed she was drifting on a tide that neither he nor she could do much about. He couldn't tell whether her restlessness, her compulsive and increasingly unsafe wandering through the city, marked the onset of an unsoundness of mind or an acute, perilous kind of sanity. Or were they both the same thing?

Rahel drogs in i äktenskapet som en resenär dras till en ledig stol i vänthallen på en flygplats. Med en Slå sig ner-känsla.

I also knew Grenville was a man easily bored.

How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life.

There just didn't seem to be anything to hold on to. We weren't going anywhere, and we weren't pulling away. We were just floating, suspended in liquid. And I guess I want more. And I don't know what he wants.

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent

p. 62 ...meditation… exposes a contradiction between the sort of person we wish to be and the kind of person we are. Restlessness and lethargy are ways of evading the discomfort of this contradiction.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't.

Because talent won't be quiet, doesn't know how to be quiet, he said. Whether it's a talent for safe-cracking, thought-reading, or dividing ten-digit numbers in your head, it screams to be used. It never shuts up. It'll wake you in the middle of your tiredest night, screaming, 'Use me, use me, use me! I'm tired of just sitting here! Use me, fuckhead, use me!

Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else.'

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

She just wasn't sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.

I had been having trouble sleeping, and had found that actually getting up was marginally preferable to lying in my bed batting away the swirling mess of my thoughts.

Will stared out the windows like a dog denied a walk.

She got up and she sat down, plumping cushions, checking a clock for some invisible appointment.

a persistent unsettledness of wings.

It is vain to say that human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it." (CHARLOTTE BRONTË, 1847)46

There is nothing sadder than sitting in a car and having absolutely nowhere to go.