83 Quotes About Restlessness

But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.

Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

When she had thus for a while struck the flint on her heart without getting a spark, incapable, moreover, of understanding what she did not experience as of believing anything that did not present itself in conventional forms she persuaded herself without difficulty that Charles's passion was nothing very exorbitant.

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

All of them had a restlessness in common.