Restlessness Quotes
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Humans are forever discontent - always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
creativity results from a restlessness to improve the status quo and involves generation of new ideas, use of the imagination, and decision making.
— Carolyn Zeisset
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
— Edmund Clowney
But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.
— Kahlil Gibran
He who keeps his heart near God will find peace and tranquility, whilst he who gives his heart to the people will find restlessness and apprehension.
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
— Joseph Conrad
Her restlessness disappeared and in its place stood the best diversion possible - a smoking-hot bad boy.
— Terri L. Austin
We become tight and constricted in our minds, which can easily lead to agitation and restlessness.
— Gyalwa Dokhampa
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
— Immanuel Kant
I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.
— Oscar Hammerstein II
I went as a passenger, having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunted me as a fiend
— Edgar Allan Poe
All of them had a restlessness in common.
— John Steinbeck
New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness if you have no inner stabilizer.
— Henry Miller
You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.
— Shannon L. Alder
Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
— Pema Chodron
Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.
— Bryant McGill
God, I love the waltz, the way the elegance of the one-count draws your attention away from the restlessness of the two-three.
— Elizabeth Little
There is nothing quite like this novel with its rage and ragings, its discontent and angry restlessness. Wuthering Heights is a virgin's story.
— Elizabeth Hardwick
I sat down on the sofa, strangely restless, it was as though the tempo inside me was greater than that outside.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
Still, the night feels restless underneath me
— Patti Callahan Henry
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
— John Ruskin
I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.
— Shannon Mullen
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
— Louis Kronenberger
Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for.
— Steve Maraboli
Sadder than a ticking clock, the moments without you
— John Geddes
And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.
— Hermann Hesse
The special calling of the artist is to call the world to a kind of rest or remind it of its restlessness
— William A. Dyrness
And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
— Patrick DeWitt
There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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— Carlo Cercignani
You see, when you're young and foolish it doesn't matter where you may be, you always think that you'll be happier somewhere else.
— Felix Salten
Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.
— April Mae Monterrosa
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
— G. Stanley Hall
The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.
— Gautama Buddha
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath? — William Shakespeare
To say to me that thou art out of breath? — William Shakespeare
Science has its being in a perpetual mental restlessness.
— William Temple
There was a midsummer restlessness abroad - early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
His was the coiled, urgent restlessness of a person who believed that fate had mistakenly allotted him a place below his true destiny.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In the summer of 1845 Edward Little was sixteen years old and restless in his blood.
— James Carlos Blake
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
— Louis Simpson
The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.
— Sebastian Barry
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
— Lyonel Feininger
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
— Augustine Of Hippo
We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.
— Helen Fisher
His easy going behavior contrasts greatly with my restlessness
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
— Andrew Bird
My favorite cure for boredom is sleep. It's very easy to get to sleep when bored and very hard to get bored after a long rest.
— Robert M. Pirsig
No one has ever died of restlessness, but rashness is another matter. We've planted seeds, let them grow.
— George R R Martin
As he looked at her, she felt that flood of restlessness that she now knew was called desire.
— Shelly Thacker
Life just seems too huge and too fascinating for me to begin thinking about curing my restlessness at this stage of the game. Maybe later.
— Hunter S. Thompson
St. Augustine referred to the restlessness in every human being that is satisfied only in God.
— Betty Malz
It is your restlessness that causes chaos.
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.
— Gail Carson Levine