83 Quotes About Restlessness

For Zugunruhe is the word describing what's inside a bird that makes it want to spread its wings and cherish flight above all things.

Restlessness is usually a sign of changes needing to be made, boredom, or loss of significance.

Faith lets you see the possibility in every situation. Others may see a desert but what you see is a place where virtually everything can be grown.

What pleasure is there in seeing new lands? Or in surveying cities and spots of interest? All your bustle is useless. Do you ask why such flight does not help you? It is because you flee along with yourself. You must lay aside the burdens of the mind; until you do this, no place willsatisfy you. [...] The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

I discovered I was infected with a terrible suspicion of myself and my inability to stay still, my dreadful insomnia of place.

Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless centre.

Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.

Det begyndte å komme rotne flækker i mit indre, sorte svamper som bredte sig mere og mere.

Gud hadde stukket sin finger ned i mit nervenet og lempelig, ganske løselig bragt litt uorden i trådene.