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Quotes About Weary

Don't kiss me, I am weary - Death will kiss me.
~ Anna Akhmatova
But now my soul, unused to stretch her powers In flight so daring, drops her weary wing, And seeks again the known accustomed spot, Drest up with sun, and shade, and lawns, and streams, A mansion fair, and spacious for its guest, And full replete with wonders.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
Today the man looked a bit . . . chewed. No, humans wouldn't say "chewed." Frazzled. Was that the human equivalent?
~ Anne Bishop
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
~ Anne Boleyn
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. ISAIAH 40:28 – 29
~ Anne Graham Lotz
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Let us not be deceived by hope, because it betrays, or by love, because it grows weary, or by life, because it satiates but does not sate, or even by death, because it brings more than you want and less than you expect.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A minha alma está cansada da minha vida
~ Fernando Pessoa
Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'm so cold, so weary in my abandonment. Go and find my Mother, O Wind.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness. —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet . (Penguin Classics, 2002)
~ Fernando Pessoa
Y ya no hablaron más. La cabeza de Hipólita estaba caída sobre su pecho. Faltaba poco para amanecer. Entonces Erdosain dobló ese cuerpo fatigado sobre el sofá... ella sonrió extenuada; luego Remo sentóse sobre la alfombra, apoyó la cabeza en el borde del sofá, y así acurrucado quedóse adormecido.
~ Roberto Arlt
There are times when it is comforting to sleep with sunlight on your eyelids. And times when quiet talk at night is better than sleep, no matter how weary you are.
~ Robin Hobb
I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.
~ Robin Hobb
Are you sick to sleep this much?" "It's easier than being awake.
~ Robin Hobb
The man had sat back down in the comfortable upholstered chair. He moved his shoulders around as if to ease away an aching sensation. He seemed terribly weary. 'Call me The Giver,' he told Jonas.
~ Lois Lowry
He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.
~ Lois Lowry
It was hell to be so tired, and still care.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
You love her?" Natches frowned, an edge of disbelief in his voice. Love. Son of a bitch. That word was being thrown around like a bone to a favorite hound. "As much as I can love anyone," he finally stated wearily. "I'm committed. That's going to have to be enough for you." He was going to have to find a way to make it enough for Janey.
~ Lora Leigh
And emerging from these houses and going in, and seeing the pretence of paint and stucco year after year until it all peeled away, the souls of the poor owners of those houses sought to be other souls until they grew weary of it.
~ Lord Dunsany
Tired," said Jason. "S-L-E-E-P-Y. Tired.
~ Louis Sachar
People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
My views are the fleeting observations of a 'travelling scholar'9 rushing through life in the greatest haste. People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.
~ Soren Kierkegaard