Quotes About Weary

Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

También había conocido entonces el inconfundible olor del agotamiento, como si la fatiga poseyera un aroma propio.

Vino ajeno y miseria propia. El reposo breve de un guerrero.

Grief is exhausting.

Then Jesus said, "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest." —Matthew 11:28

At every one of those concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. Well, there is the same thing in heaven. A number of people sit there in glory, not because they are happy, but because they think they owe it to their position to be in heaven. They are almost all English.

I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.

Like one who has lost his way and is weary, she sat and saw as in one glance all the paths of her young hope which she should never find again.

I long for life, and there is no help. I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content. Agony of pain and suffocation — and all the while the earth

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

And so to bed.

When they were tired Night rained her thick dark sleep upon their eyes.

And more than that, she just looked… tired. Like she'd battled the world and the world had won.

I'm exhausted almost all the time.

There are times when you wake at dawn and check your neck for the marks of the vampire, those two little red dots, your pupils still contracted with hate, muscles weary from the struggle.

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.

This whole town does look like whatever hope becomes after it begins to weary a little, then weary a little more. But hope deferred is still hope.

When I came home in the middle of the night I was tired; I longed for a tolerant giant, a person as big as a house, to hold me and rock me.

We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.

She had beauty still, the thinness of her flesh but exposed the grace of her bones and sinews, but the great brooding eyes were circled by umber shadows and the thick black lashes seemed too heavy for the weary lids.

Ardour in well-doing is a misleading and a treacherous thing. It cries out loudly for employment; you can't satisfy it at first; it wants more and more; it is eager to move mountains and divert the course of rivers. It isn't content till it perspires. And then, too often, when it feels the perspiration on its brow, it wearies all of a sudden and dies, without even putting itself to the trouble of saying, I've had enough of this.