Quotes About Restlessness

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.

Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that, soldier-like, he was pining to be returned. Homesick for a place he'd never been.

Insomniacs are exquisitely grateful for people to recognize their weariness.

I fell onto the bed and was asleep in seconds. It was a nourishing, dreamless sleep, but I woke after four hours, and I was too alert, too restless, to find sleep again.

The rain grew heavier, but a restlessness I couldn't fight or understand kept me walking.

I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.

Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think, 'What does my brain actually have to do to make me become asleep? What is the difference between that state and this? Why is the weird, invisible change not happening tonight?'

Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

If I stay in one mindset or place for too long, I get crazy.

I don't even like to sleep - I feel as if there's too much to do.

Travel causes some affliction of the eye, and after a while no place it rests looks like home.

His people had hogs there till the bottom fell out of hogs. The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. So it was with the world, restless, kind of brutal. Always going on. Not waiting for no man.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

There's still too much energy leftover at this tomb-desk, on Broadway, when I am semi-asleep at night in our bedroom, struggling to get a good night's rest. There's an overflow of loin energy. It spills out from my pores as if I were a cracked drum of reacting chemicals. I need to work to expend this excess energy in words, stories and books....My mind is a body that's a mind.

When we heed the truth about our greatness in him — when we first hear his whispering voice — the Gift of Restlessness stirs in our souls. We sense God calling us to something more, and it resonates inside of us. The Gift of Restlessness is just a manifestation of our deepest purpose. When we start to step into that greatness and walk in our calling, we find what we sought. Or maybe it finds us. In other words, obedience defeats restlessness.

The Curse of Restlessness that can lead from one trip to the next, one job to the next, or one relationship to the next, can be transformed by a sense of contentment. An abiding peace can grow — a peace that comes from living your calling in the world.

Restlessness is an itch that, if left unscratched, is a curse.

I'd heard it said that "when a man is tired of moving, he moves to New York, and the movement comes to him.

Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?

You haven't touched me, and I'm already unfocused.:

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.