Quotes About Restlessness

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

It came to him, the very picture: he was an unshucked oyster, hurtling on the winds, all air, gonad and gut. Chances seemed in a loud hurry around him, but he could do nothing--nothing-- about them. Mestre yearned to be driven by some grand circumstance. Everything in his existence was too slack

so long as the earth was inhabited by people, there would be no calm place.

Was there then something wrong with him, that he couldn't just rest content? Must he always be dreaming up improvements? And it seemed to Martin that if only he could imagine something else, something great, something greater, something as great as the whole world, then he might rest awhile.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

In love there is but little rest.

Staying, we all know, is not the norm in our mobile culture. A great deal of money is spent each day to create desires in each of us that can never be fulfilled. I suspect that much of our restlessness is a return on this investment.

It is amazing how much your brain races when you literally have nothing to do.

S'adonà que anava a les palpentes, entossudit en una recerca estranya, probablement inútil. Però en part havia continuat fent allò per la mateixa raó del començament: no estar quiet, moure's, fer alguna cosa, fugir. Igual que en Raül?

Una ambigua insatisfacción —magnánima o mezquina— nos impide reposar. El proyecto actúa como un proyectil para horadar la realidad y ampliarla con lo posible. Ciertamente, la posibilidad puede ser feroz, pero en su origen es esperanzadora.

One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far." —JODI PICOULT1

all of our trials are caused by restlessness, the refusal to accept the fact that limitations exist

Des Menschen Heimweh erwacht draußen, es wächst und wächst, wenn keine Mauern es beengen.

impatiently

There was no way I'd be able to sleep tonight, or sit through school tomorrow. I had to go now.

Kegiatan fisik dalam menulis fiksi bertolak belakang dengan hasil yang didapat. Kegiatan tersebut adalah duduk tegang dan jenuh sepanjang siang atau malam di depan meja dan mesin ketik, pada saat aku ingin berdiri dan pergi ke suatu tempat untuk melihat sesuatu yang aku yakini lebih menarik dibanding apa yang sedang aku kerjakan.

Next to want, boredom has become the worst scourge in our lives.

You know how it feels when you're someplace and you ask yourself, Why am I here? That's how it is with me all the time. I can't wait to leave. To go from wherever I am to some other place. It never ends.

your outer will power may also have succeeded to build an eventful outer life that fills the void to a degree as long as you do not hold still. However, this is but temporary peace before the storm.

I have this restlessness. I'm relentless to do things. My wife will say I'm an absolute nightmare.

I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to some people deeply along the way - but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief.

For most of my life, I've been in a hurry.

I have a problem sometimes with being too hyper.