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Quotes About Disquietude

when the night is a bit more than some little suns pulled apart when the heart lets loose a cry our disquietude wrings dry
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Midway in my delight of the wild beauty, there crept, unbidden and unexplained, a curious feeling of disquietude, almost of alarm.
~ Algernon Blackwood
We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great. That is the unconsolable heartburn, the lifelong disquietude of having been made in the image of God.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
The vague disquietude which prevailed among the spectators had so much affected one of the crowd that he did not await the arrival of the vessel in harbor, but jumping into a small skiff, desired to be pulled alongside the Pharaon, which he reached as she rounded into La Reserve basin.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The just person enjoys. the greatest peace of mind, while the unjust is full of the utmost disquietude.
~ Epicurus
A spiritual life, without a very large allowance of disquietude in it, is no spiritual life at all. It is but a flattering superstition of self-love.
~ Frederick William Faber
He had much prudence, much conscientiousness, and there were occasions when these virtues were the cause of overmuch disquietude in him.
~ Herman Melville
that anxiety has at its core disquietude caused by ambiguity and a strong inclination toward problem solving. When
~ Kelly G. Wilson
that you may reap humility from your dryness, instead of the disquietude the devil strives to cause by it. I believe that where true humility exists, although God should never bestow consolations, yet He gives a peace and resignation which make the soul happier than are others with sensible devotion.
~ Teresa of Avila
As thoughts possess the fashion of the mood That gave them birth, so every deed we do, Partakes of our inborn disquietude That spurns the old and reaches toward the new.
~ Henry Abbey
Before he had completed this thought, the peak of the mountain was flooded with thin rose colour, too austere to be theatrical, but so vivid that its beauty was painful. He felt that kind of impatience and disquietude that sudden beauty brings. He could not stand and watch the flood of warmth flow down the flanks of the mountain nor the intolerable transfiguration of the sky.
~ Ngaio Marsh