83 Quotes About Restlessness

  • Author Edward St. Aubyn
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    He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is.

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  • Author Gyalwa Dokhampa
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    For many people it is the notion of time that makes them feel restless – that there just aren't enough hours in the day, that they are rushing, either on an hourly or daily basis or that life was somehow better in the past or will be so in the future.

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  • Author Robert James Waller
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    She was more of a business partner to him than anything else. Some of her appreciated that. But rustling yet within her was another person who wanted to bathe and perfume herself...and be taken, carried away, and peeled back by a force she could sense, but never articulate, even dimly within her mind.

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  • Author Alfred Tennyson
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    I cannot rest from travel: I will drinkLife to the lees: all times I have enjoyedGreatly, have suffered greatly, both with thoseThat loved me, and alone.

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  • Author Christine Upton
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    During the hours when which our souls should be taking flight... Dancing almost endlessly with our hopes and dreams... As if only to aspire some sort of clarity prior to the morning light...Yet, be it as it may, regardless as to how long one waits...Sleep has yet again eluded me...Leaving me alone once again with my thoughts ~

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