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Quotes About Restlessness

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.
~ Umberto Eco
I felt dull and somnolent, for 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. William
~ Umberto Eco
Ik voelde me verdoofd van de slaap, want de slaap overdag is als de zonde van het vlees: hoe meer je ervan hebt gehad, hoe meer je ervan zou willen hebben, en toch voel je je ongelukkig, voldaan en onvoldaan tegelijkertijd.
~ Umberto Eco
dienos miegas yra lyg k?no nuod?m?: kuo daugiau jos esi patyr?s, tuo daugiau jos trokšti, bet jautiesi nelaimingas, kartu sotus ir alkanas.
~ Umberto Eco
I felt dull and somnolent, for 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.
~ Umberto Eco
My wish for an adventure with Yvette was a wish to be taken up to the skies, to be removed from the life I had – the dullness, the pointless tension, 'the situation of the country'. It wasn't a wish to be involved with people as trapped as myself.
~ V.S. Naipaul
become antsy
~ Val McDermid
Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
~ Victor Hugo
When your day has been teeming with different sensations, when you have things on your mind, you can get to sleep to start with but you can't get back to sleep. Sleep comes a lot more easily than it comes back.
~ Victor Hugo
The solitary man is a modified savage, accepted by civilization. He who wanders most is most alone; hence his continual change of place. To remain anywhere long, suffocated him with the sense of being tamed. He spent his life in moving on.
~ Victor Hugo
Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way.
~ Kristin Hannah
Onu özlüyordu. Onu ar?yordu. Onun için endiÅŸeleniyordu. Bunlar onun gece yolculuklar?yd?.
~ Kristin Hannah
upset. Perhaps it is because you have not been sleeping
~ Kristin Hannah
Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless.
~ Laini Taylor
I got the Weary BluesAnd I can't be satisfied.
~ Langston Hughes
Boredom is that agitated space between relaxation and action; dialed down, it can become a pleasant kind of inertia or a meditative stillness, where it feels good to sit quietly with your own thoughts; cranked up a notch, it can produce creative release. But that middle place is the boredom itself – restlessness with no movement. A dull and desperate longing for something else. From Catastrophic Happiness.
~ Catherine Newman
It's the Sea of Restlessness," he said. "Fills you up with go go go, like you're a bowl full of reaching and wanting but you don't know what you're reaching and wanting for.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Jax stood up straight and clapped his hands together. "Welp," he announced, "I'm bored. This is stupid and I'm bored.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.
~ Cathie Linz
David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
~ Geraldine Brooks
L'uomo è infelice perchè è incontentabile.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Water sleeps, but Enemy never rests.
~ Glen Cook
Parts of him were built to be awake before dawn and yearning to be both absolutely still and moving everywhere at once.
~ Glen David Gold