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Quotes About Weary

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.
~ Sun Tzu
The U.S. military is not war weary. Our military draws strength from confronting our enemies when clear policy objectives are set and we are fully resourced for the fight.
~ James Mattis
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
~ Jack Kerouac
God is simple. It is only man which is an obscure darkness." Reb Isaac threw him an approving glance. But David said, "I feel that nothing is simple, and nothing obscure. Only thought makes it so, and often I am weary of thinking.
~ Taylor Caldwell
O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I grew weary of keeping up, Doctor. That is my story, if you must know. I grew weary of transitory knowledge, and decided to seek knowledge of a more æternal nature.
~ Neal Stephenson
I've grown tired of people impersonating world-weary cynics by intoning the old saying 'My enemy's enemy is my friend' as if it were a new-minted witticism.
~ Peter Hitchens
How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?
~ Christine de Pizan
Rivera rubbed his temples. Satan told you to do it? he said wearily. No. Elvis? I told you, it's supernatural.
~ Christopher Moore
Ugh," said Eragon, hefting his load.
~ Christopher Paolini
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune,Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon,I heard a Negro play.Down on Lenox Avenue the other nightBy the pale dull pallor of an old gas lightHe did a lazy sway…He did a lazy sway…To the tune o' those Weary Blues.
~ Langston Hughes
NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.
~ Giacomo Casanova
I'm so tired, my tired is tired.
~ Internet meme
unfortunate enough to bump into Justine too. She didn't look as if she'd slept much either. He
~ Jacqueline Wilson
and the whole place looked tired and discouraged, as though wearily about to shave and get dressed for a terrible evening.
~ James Baldwin
Behold, I am weary of my wisdom, like a bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to receive it.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Man hath a weary pilgrimage, As through the word he wends; On every stage, from youth to age, Still discontent attends.
~ Robert Southey
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
~ Homer
Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore,Never tired pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more,Than my weary sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast!O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest.
~ Thomas Campion
This is Europe's true predicament: together with the fear of man we have also lost the love of man, reverence for man, confidence in man, indeed the will to man. Now the sight of man makes us weary. What is nihilism today if not that?
~ Nietzsche Fiedrich
However weary he might be of life after three centuries of it, he was more weary of witnessing death.
~ Nora Roberts
Unconventional," said Jenkins. "What is conventional?" asked Andrew. "Living in a dream? Living for a memory? you must be weary of it." "Not
~ Clifford D. Simak