Quotes About Restlessness

The children had become wriggly and giggly, almost as if they were drunk. They seemed unable to sit still. They were sliding of their chairs, constantly knocking cutlery onto the floor, and talking in high-pitched voices over the top of one another. Alice didn't know if this was normal behavior or not. It wasn't exactly relaxing. Nick had his jaw clenched, as if this dinner were a horrible medical procedure he had to endure.

Connie looked like a young person who had aged a great deal. She was frail, and moved slowly but impatiently, as if she was driving too slow a car. You could tell that once upon a time she'd been the sort of person who never sat still.

She literally felt twitchy without her phone.

They were all just sitting here. Waiting. What were they meant to be doing? The desire to interact was an irresistible itch.

I am a jumble of passions, misgivings, and wants. It seems that I am always in a state of wishing and rarely in a state of contentment.

I find myself looking around at everything with an unsatisfied sniff. I'm too easily irritated and bored, and I'm disturbed by the arrogance that that implies.

I couldn't sleep beside him. It was too strong. I wanted him too much. It never went away. (32)

When you're Dead ... you stay up all night long.

Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Violetta had clawed the sere crust on her limbs, anything to get something bright and liquid flowing again, out in the open and slippery between our fingers.

Many actors are not willing to wait and take the risk. They get restless sitting at home and, eventually, take up anything that comes their way. It's not that I wasn't offered supernatural shows and love stories again, but I chose to wait for the right opportunity. I deserve variety, or I will feel stagnant.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Boredom makes you do crazy things.

It's really hard to do nothing totally.

He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade in, but not to swim.

At night, on the other hand, I already know that I'm not going to get any sleep in this room they've stuck me in. It's the kind of room that makes me hate the world. I'd toss all this stuff out the window, if I could. I might even toss myself out. I'm on the twelfth floor. But these windows don't open.

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.

Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.

My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

The only time I have problems is when I sleep.