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Quotes About Weary

You got too tired of being an advertisement for our world, so that angels could see: yes it's pretty, earth.
~ Yehuda Amichai
People caught in a homeland-trap: to speak now in this weary language, a language that was torn from its sleep in the Bible: dazzled, it wobbles from mouth to mouth. In a language that once described miracles and God, to say car, bomb, God.
~ Yehuda Amichai
In the distance,far over there, only the eyes can travel when the body is weary.
~ Yvette Christiansë
He was tired. And he was big.
~ Deeanne Gist
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
~ Rumi
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.
~ George Herbert
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28–30
~ Jen Hatmaker
Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them.
~ Eoin Colfer
I need to sleep, he thought wearily. But not to dream.
~ Eoin Colfer
The knock-kneed brown moose, a tired group of ten, yards ahead of her for the last three days, comfort her too. It's like following a pack of grandfathers, their large, weary eyes, red lids sagging, their gray muzzles, puckered as if the world is almost done with them but not quite yet.
~ Amy Bloom
Pre-baby I used to fantasize about winning the lottery, or becoming deliriously famous and rich. Now I fantasize about sleep. I fantasize about slumber the way guys fantasize about sex. Hours of it, days of it. Sleeping on the couch, on the bed, on the floor, wherever I can find a comfortable spot. It is almost illicit, so decadent and unimaginable, it now seems to sleep when I want, where I want, and for as long as I want.
~ Andrea J. Buchanan
I pulled into Nazareth, was feelin' 'bout half-past deadI just need some place where I can lay my head."Hey, mister, can you tell where a man might find a bed?"He just grinned and shook my hand; "No" was all he said.
~ Robbie Robertson
You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.
~ Robert Brault
How do you feel about your prophesied destiny? I must know, if I am to compose this epic. Feel? Rand looked around the camp, at the Jindo moving among the tents. How many of them would be dead before he was done? Tired. I feel tired.
~ Robert Jordan
Qué sentís respecto a vuestro destino profetizado? He de saberlo, si tengo que componer esa oda heroica. —¿Que qué siento? (...) Cansancio. Me siento cansado.
~ Robert Jordan
the Creator must have been tired when it came time to make men;
~ Robert Jordan
Had she ever enjoyed anything? Had every day been a struggle? Perhaps death would be a release, a rest for the weary.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
He was a talkative man and jabbered away the whole time as his horse meandered about the road. It saved us from having to construct a story for him, though by the time he left us in Banbury, I was most weary of smiling stupidly out from under my hat brim and trying not to squint. As his wagon pulled away, I turned to Holmes. "Next time we do this, I will play the deaf old woman and you can laugh at rude jests for an hour.
~ Laurie R. King
When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.
~ Horatius Bonar
Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.
~ Doctor Who
Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.
~ Kathryn Scott
Ah, why should life all labor be?
~ Alfred the Great
I think we're delirious from lack of sleep.
~ Jenny Han