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Quotes About Weary

There must be a type of weariness that seems a blessing of the earth.
~ Don DeLillo
I have got into one of my moping moods tonight,' said my father, after a silence; then quoting Shakespeare, whom, by way of keeping up our English, he used to read aloud, he said: 'In truth I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I got it – came by it . . . I forget the rest.
~ Unknown
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
But when I tried to speak them, I found I could not. His cheeks were flushed with shame, and the skin beneath his eyes was weary. His trust was a part of him, as much as his hands or his miraculous feet. And despite my hurt, I would not wish to see it gone, to see him as uneasy and fearful as the rest of us, for any price.
~ Madeline Miller
Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course. We lay stricken and sleepless as the hours passed.
~ Madeline Miller
That's the key word—engage. Choose to engage and your weary warrior wakes up.
~ John Eldredge
but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.
~ John Irving
And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.
~ John Keats
When you find that weariness depresses or amusement distracts you, you will calmly turn with an untroubled spirit to your Heavenly Father, who is always holding out His arms to you. You will look to Him for gladness and refreshment when depressed, for moderation and recollection when in good spirits, and you will find that He will never leave you to want.
~ Francois Fenelon
their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural curiosity has been quenched in toil and care and poor, shallow comfort.
~ John Muir
the water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying, is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint in heaven; and the water which is found in the vessel of mercy is holy...
~ John Ruskin
I'm gettin' tired way past where sleep rests me.
~ John Steinbeck
And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the buyer man would get much more, but they didn't know how to do it. Merchandising was a secret to them.
~ John Steinbeck
It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.
~ Unknown
I hate being lectured to when I'm dead beat tired.
~ Unknown
now my weary limbs turned to it for support; so that, in turn, thighs, hips, shoulders burrowed into, trying to adhere at every angle to, the sheets that covered its mattress, as if my fatigue, like a sculptor, had wished to take a cast of an entire human body.
~ Marcel Proust
there comes in all lives a time, towards which you still have far to go, when the weary eyes can endure but one kind of light, the light which a fine evening like this prepares for us in the stillroom of darkness, when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence.
~ Marcel Proust
I feel the heaviness of nightmares even though I am awake. How weary I am, how sleepless and hopeless—there is no escape from the torment of wishes.
~ Unknown
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.
~ Louis Pullig De Gouy
He said to Jacob, "Let me eat some of that red stuff, because I'm exhausted."
~ Unknown
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
~ Francis Quarles
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. -Isaiah 40:29-31
~ Bible
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
~ Martin H. Fischer
We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.
~ Martin Luther