Quotes About Restlessness

I could not rest, Watson, I could not sit quiet in my chair, if I thought that such a man as Professor Moriarty were walking the streets of London unchallenged.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Man is ill because he is never still.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

If you did enough traveling, you'd never feel at home anywhere.

He is disappointed because he has solved the problem, and has gone back to the baseline state of boredom and low-level irritation that always comes over him when he's not doing something that inherently needs to be done, like picking a lock or breaking a code.

Not so lonely that that old, queer, unhappy restlessness had begun again within him; that craving for some place strange and different, which at the beginning of her marriage she had had to make such strenuous efforts to repress, and which yet faintly alarmed her, though it now sprang up at gradually lessening intervals.

Helga Crane was silent, feeling a mystifying yearning which sang and throbbed in her.

You're a good girl and always have been, but deep down, you think there's more to life than always following the rules, and there's a part of you that craves the unknown.

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

He left and I wished I could go somewhere and start all over, which is how I've felt all my life. As soon as I get somewhere, I'm ready to leave.

He was always on the verge of sleep, a middle area that provided no rest.

I get restless of the night.

When sleep eludes you, embrace wakefulness, he told himself, and read until dawn.

His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.

Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.

No era tanto que las manecillas del tiempo se hubieran detenido allí, sino más bien como si se hubieran levantado, exasperadas, y el reloj hubiera exclamado: ¡Venga, coño! Yo me largo de aquí.