Quotes About Restlessness

I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone.

I tried and tried to sleep, lulled by the movement, the purring of the motor, and the snores of the other passengers, but it's never been easy for me to sleep, and much less now, when I still have residues of the wild life running through my veins.

Inside I carried a burning restlessness.

Eran tiempos difíciles. Yo tenía alrededor de veinticinco años, pero me parecía que me quedaba poca vida por delante para labrarme un futuro y tener la posición que deseaba. Trabajaba como un animal y las pocas veces que me sentaba a descansar, obligado por el tedio de algún domingo, sentía que estaba perdiendo momentos preciosos y que cada minuto de ocio era un siglo más lejos de Rosa.

I've had insomnia since I was a little kid and I never sleep well. Sometimes I sleep very badly and sometimes I sleep slightly badly. I get it especially when I'm on tour because you cross a lot of time zones, and I'm not very adaptable.

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

Boredom is a sickness of the soul.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

It is no rest to be idle.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

I try every day and every night to find a movie or a TV show that I can watch, but I just can't make it past ten minutes of anything.

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

His pacing stopped. The mattress sighed as he sat on the edge. seconds ticked by before he spoke so softly she could barely hear. "Sometimes I want to leave this town so bad I can taste it.

The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about.

You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.

Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.