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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. — Ecclesiastes 12 12

It is greed and laziness and selfishness, not hunger or weariness or cold, that take the dignity out of a man, and make him look mean. — George MacDonald

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

How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know. — John Burroughs

Weltanschaung as Ennui [10w]
When world-view turns to world-weariness,
we see staleness in everything. — Beryl Dov

life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache — Miles Franklin

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. — John Ruskin

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love. — William Butler Yeats

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world. — Francis Marion Crawford

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness. — Walter Hilton

The three adventurers were overcome by that delicious weariness which suddenly overtakes one at the end of an outdoor day. — Carol Ryrie Brink

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness? — Homer

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness. — David Nicholls

Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness. — Ilya Ehrenburg

Our labour preserves us from three great evils
weariness, vice, and want. — Voltaire

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. — Luis Palau

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat. — Rose Kennedy

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. — Elmer Davis

Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it. — Melika Dannese Lux

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism. — George Orwell

Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,
An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists. — Adelaide Crapsey

Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness. — Donald Evans

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age. — Andre Gide

Muscle-work can only make one weary - it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion. — Jefferson Smith

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Love life's weariness leavens. — Henri Cazalis

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me. — Sam Lipsyte

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness. — Christopher Pike

There was no grandeur here, no sublimity, only weariness and gloom. — Peter Ackroyd

How kind is weariness sometimes! It is like the Father's hand laid a little heavy on the heart to make it still. — George MacDonald

But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement. — Alexander Maksik

Patience includes perseverance - the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord. — Billy Graham

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
— Eric Hoffer

Reason, by a weariness that made everything around — Elena Ferrante

Exercise is labor without weariness. — Samuel Johnson

Weariness seemed to settle on him like a coating of dust. — Maria V. Snyder

I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot. — Fedor Emelianenko

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness - care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow? — Ernest Renan

Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

For all things turn to barenness
In the dim glass the demons hold
The glass of outer weariness
Made when God slept in times of old — Loreena McKennitt

Out of the dreariness
Into its cheeriness
Come we in weariness,
Home. — Stephen Chalmers

Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit. — Henry David Thoreau

I rub the weariness from my eyes and try to ignore my headache - I could use some rest. — Marie Lu

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Everyone hustles his life along, and is troubled by a longing for the future and weariness of the present. — Seneca.

On those grim days when he felt surrounded by the vacuum of absurdity, he always felt particularly weary. He tried to blame his weariness on the daily — Jose Saramago

Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion. — George D. Prentice

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. — Cesare Pavese

It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. — Heraclitus

At first there's nothing to see, but you feel a sort of weariness that tells you something is in the air. — E.H. Gombrich

Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war. — Guy Gavriel Kay

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength. — John Henry Jowett

I know. I'm sorry. But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt. — Albert Camus

Adam senses a large weariness in him, the weariness of an old actor in the middle of a long run in an old part. — John Banville

The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with your wandering mind. Come messy. — Paul E. Miller

With night's
Dim veil and blue
I will cover my eyes,
I will bind close my eyes that are
So weary. — Adelaide Crapsey

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly? — Laini Taylor

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them. — Heraclitus

You felt no reality. Only a weariness, a longing for a shoulder to sleep on, a pair of arms to curl up in - and a lack of that now. — Sylvia Plath

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?
- Epithalamion — Edmund Spenser

But when weariness finally forced him to be silent, he was no longer of use to his tormentors, and they sought amusement elsewhere — Mark Twain

Reader, is prayer your element or your weariness? Which? — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The main concern of all great religions has been to fight a certain weariness and heaviness grown to epidemic proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The day had begun to feel tinny: a pretend day, a dream day, that for some unaccountable reason she had to go on and on with as if it were real. — Sarah Waters

The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. — Gordon B. Hinckley