Quotes About Restlessness

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

Bir kez ayaklar? üstüne dikildi mi, oldu?u yerde kalamaz insan.

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

It was all very well being told that she could do nothing to make things better. Neverfell did not have the kind of mind that could take that quietly. She did not have the kind of mind that could be quiet at all.

Even when she slept, her anxieties did not.

I feel like I'm holding my breath all the time, never knowing when my lungs will just give up. The air we're supposed to breathe is up above – I can feel it.

He was tumbling through feelings that he did not understand, and only knew that he wanted to run and scream.

Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning "I can't fucking sleep!

Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history—and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

Only the Holy Spirit can give us peace in the midst of the storms of restlessness and despair. We should not grieve our Guide by indulging in worry or paying undue attention to self.

nada sino Dios puede satisfacer completamente, porque para Dios se creó el alma, y sin Dios siempre está inquieta y en tormento secreto.

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

She had no place on this earth. There was no place where she was comfortable, no place she could relax, no place where she felt safe.

There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir.

Meyer himself was ready for a change. "Union Square Cafe was a great canvas, but I needed a new place to express my creativity," he said. "I didn't think I should alter a successful restaurant just because I was restless. I didn't have to get all of my ideas into one place.

But one never has it easy with that son of mine, one has one devil of a time." Mom was conversing and setting spoons and forks on either side of the Sevres plates "because since he was a youngster he was always, still is, elsewhere, home was hell to him, he just came in to sleep, morning to night he'd be out on Polni Street, the entire town knew him, because he was forever at somebody else's, always wanting to be somewhere other than where he was.

For hundreds of years, their recorded writings—whether nuns or poets, inspired teachers or artists—have described a division, or painful restlessness, within themselves prior to a moment of illumination when a great light or descent of grace fell upon them.

Boredom . . . is one of the reasons that both men and women walk out the door and never come back.

She was easy to look at and easy to be with most of the time, but she was in no sense of the word an easy person. She was afflicted with a restlessness of spirit he could not guess at, but he knew she was the one for him.

She was afflicted with a restlessness of spirit he could not guess at, but he knew she was the one for him.