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Quotes About Restlessness

Sleeplessness comes when our thoughts outweigh the night.
~ Terri Guillemets
You're bored. Two weeks without someone trying to kill us and you're bored out of your mind. Leia to Han
~ Greg Keyes
The church today has been compared to a football game with twenty-two people on the field in desperate need of rest, and fifty thousand people in the stands in desperate need of exercise.
~ Greg Ogden
I wish I'd been a Hell-raiser when I was 30 years old. I tried when I was 50 but I always got sleepy.
~ Groucho Marx
Restlessness is the number one enemy of people who have just quit smoking.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Ignoro de dónde salió el manido «descanse en paz». Dudo que tú reposes en tu tumba, porque a veces te escucho moverte, como que no terminas de hallarte en tu sepulcro. Yo tampoco. En los muertos nos queda aún una efervescencia, un burbujeo que puede confundirse con los gases que expelemos. No, son riadas de vida que todavía corren por nuestras arterias. Tardan en secarse. Se lleva una eternidad dejar la vida atrás.
~ Guillermo Arriaga
Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It is no peace of mine
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
great waves seemed to billow from him – impatience, frustration, criticism, irritation.
~ James Herriot
The best things I enjoy in life. Is why I don't go to bed and go to sleep.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
It was always unpleasant, moving like this; it always brought home to you the essential rootlessness of yourself and all men like you, always on the move, never really stopping anywhere, never really home.
~ James Jones
Yet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not happy in your? Twang. It snapped.
~ James Joyce
He was angry with himself for being young and the prey of restless foolish impulses, angry also with the change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity. Yet his anger lent nothing to the vision.
~ James Joyce
The ambition which he felt astir at times in the darkness of soul sought no outlet
~ James Joyce
A vague dissatisfaction grew up within him as he looked on the quays and on the river and on the lowering skies and yet he continued to wander up and down day after day as if he really sought someone that eluded him
~ James Joyce
Under the stars,I tried to sleep,but for once in my life couldn't.My mutant super power-the ability to nod off at at the drop of a hat,any time,anywhere-had deserted me.
~ James Lovegrove
Are you getting bored yet?)
~ James Patterson
The sleep deprivation doesn't help. My eyes feel heavy these days, my movements lumbering, my brain fueled by adrenaline but unfocused, sloppy.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, I've gotten so conditioned, it's hard to sleep past 4 a.m.
~ Joe Scarborough
It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.
~ Pete Sampras
I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.
~ Christina Ricci
I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.
~ Johnny Galecki
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.
~ Joan D. Vinge
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald