Best 62 quotes in «restless quotes» category

Boredom makes me sleepy or restless.

Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

I am a restless soul hungry perhaps wretched.

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.

Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones -- the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically.

Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.

I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling reason for dropping everything and moving to the end of the world, I know not what it is.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street

I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

The inner is the foundation of the outer. The still is master of the restless. The Sage travels all day yet never leaves his inner treasure.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance.

O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!

Restless thoughts are a kind of mental 'static' which must be silenced if we are to hear the whispers of our inner self.

There is a nick in Fortune's restless wheel For each man's good.

The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. The music seems to be seeking something. It tends to be restless, unpredictable, often very sad.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

'The Young and the Restless' is my favorite television show.

But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.

We have sought for firm ground and found none. The deeper we penetrate, the more restless becomes the universe; all is rushing about and vibrating in a wild dance.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

When my family isn't alright, I get restless. It just doesn't seem right to me.

And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.

Dear Waves, You have been restless all your life? Or maybe uneasy? I don't know quite. Oscillating between faiths, swinging between shores! Yet when we sit next to you on those sands, do you never feel like sharing what bothers you so much?

Don't accommodate complains in your chamber, else you have a sleepless and restless night. Keep them away and fall in love with actions for solution!

Do not turn me into restless waters if you cannot promise to be my stream.

For my soul lies dormant, restless, waiting for that moment when shackles are cast aside and it is free to fly once more.

Do you ever feel that way?" "Lonely?" I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it." He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have. "Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last. "What?" "Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.

I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.

I love you." He stabbed a thumb at his chest as he glared at her. Of course he did. Lucien had never hidden the fact. But the love of a friend, while comforting, was not enough anymore. It did not soothe the restless discomfort that pushed against her chest or quell the loneliness that seemed to grow within her each passing day.

I dont want ordinary, i will tire easily of that, my restless spirit needs someone that knows how to lead my stubborn heart into adventure and show me new paths through old doorways, whether in sight or in mind. Give me 9-5, comfort and medicore and i'll leave faster than i entered. I know not much about love but ive experienced much about what it isn't.

I kissed and kissed until I could almost forget how restless I’d become.

I'm afraid I'm a restless person

On building homes for fallen angels: When I was small - I sought a home, a place to go and rest my bones. Then founded something, of my own, I lived among the restless stones. If seeking leads you back to evil, what good is that, I asked a weevil. He said a home is what you make, it can't be real, if it is fake... And if you wait instead of seek, will you find love, or something bleak? I know (myself) for I have found, a beauty, hidden – in a sound. Waiting is boring. And so is exploring. A smile is sometimes all it takes. And then your whole world simply breaks.

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

Maybe our bodies are just hearts with legs and that’s why we’re so quick to run.

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.

I wanted to retain the right to disappear. Remaining in place, nesting -- it sets off fears that somebody would yank me away. To counter it, I had to flee. I had to reassure myself that I still knew how to escape.