Restlessness Quotes

“When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

“When you are bored, restless, longing for something more, unfulfilled, feeling like you've settled, haunted by the sense of being trapped in your own life, these are the deep waters of your soul speaking to you, telling you something is wrong, something is missing, something needs to change.”
― Rob Bell, How to Be Here: A Guide to Creating a Life Worth Living

“Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted

“You will never let go of the one thing that God keeps prompting you to fix.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“On building homes for fallen angels:

When I was small - I sought a home,
a place to go and rest my bones.
Then founded something, of my own,
I lived among the restless stones.

If seeking leads you back to evil,
what good is that, I asked a weevil.
He said a home is what you make,
it can't be real, if it is fake...

And if you wait instead of seek,
will you find love, or something bleak?
I know (myself) for I have found,
a beauty, hidden – in a sound.

Waiting is boring.
And so is exploring.
A smile is sometimes all it takes.
And then your whole world simply breaks.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“When you can't escape your mind then God is telling your heart to catch up. Fight for the balance you need.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“For a delight in bustling about is not industry - it is only the restless energy of a hunted mind. And the state of mind that looks on all activity as tiresome is not true repose, but a spineless inertia.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“When I rode the train west,
I went looking for something,
but I didn't see anything wonderful.
I didn't see anything better than what I already had.
Home.”
― Karen Hesse, Out of the Dust

“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.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“I discovered I was infected with a terrible suspicion of myself and my inability to stay still, my dreadful insomnia of place.”
― Aritha Van Herk, Restlessness

“Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.”
― Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

“Meditation is not a task to perform but allowing the thinking engine to take rest. In the restfulness of the thinking engine eternity arises.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“I sat down on the sofa, strangely restless, it was as though the tempo inside me was greater than that outside.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 5

“Spring was at hand. " I believe I might
recover," I thought, "if I could get out of this shell into the light of day, into the fields and woods." It was so long
since I had seen them. I remember, too, it came into my mind how nice it would be if by some magic, some
enchantment, I could forget everything that had happened in the last few years; forget everything, refresh my
mind, and begin again with new energy. In those days, I still dreamed of that and hoped for a renewal of life.
"Better go into an asylum," I thought, "to get one's brain turned upside down and rearranged anew, and then be
cured again.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

“To follow the Silk Road is to follow a ghost. It flows through the heart of Asia, but it has officially vanished leaving behind the pattern of its restlessness: counterfeit boarders, unmapped peoples. The road forks and wanders wherever you are. It is not a single way, but many: a web of choices.”
― Colin Thubron, Shadow of the Silk Road

“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 will
satisfy you. [...] The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Knowledge that leads to restlessness (unsteadiness) is tremendous bondage.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.”
― Sebastian Barry

“If the electrons in the atoms of his body were not at peace and forever restless, how could he be not?”
― Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

“The more restless and ambitious you are, the more restraint you must exercise.”
― Rajesh`, Random Cosmos

“Still, the night feels restless underneath me”
― Patti Callahan Henry (Author)

“My design, the ancient man said, sucking his lips, is not to win battles with words but to convince the head and the heart of man that we must accept the world as it is, and peacefully; the world we live in is well ordered and offers rewarding riches to those who accept their place in it without protest.”
― Carlos Fuentes, Terra Nostra

“Kuna siri ambayo wanaume hawaijui kuhusu wanawake. Wanawake wenye umri wa miaka kumi na nane hadi ishirini na mbili wana mapenzi ya kweli. Ishirini na mbili hadi ishirini na nne wana mawenge. Ishirini na nne hadi ishirini na saba wanajitambua. Ishirini na saba hadi thelathini wana hofu na mashaka mengi. Thelathini hadi thelathini na tano wana msongo wa mawazo. Thelathini na tano hadi arobaini na mbili ndoa nyingi huvunjika. Kwa hiyo, kuwa makini na wanawake na wanaume hasa wanawake na wanaume wa kundi la sita. Wanawake na wanaume hasa wanawake na wanaume wa kundi la sita, wengi wao wana DNA ya wapenzi wao wa zamani.”
― Enock Maregesi

“If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“I am as restless a traveller in my own land as a wintering whooper swan.”
― Jim Crumley, The Company of Swans

“Old movies already in
progress, already passed over
twice, watched with indifference
until orchestras swell over
happy endings, new beginnings.

The images black and white,
the lie white. (Ours is a world of
heroes and of winners, and rarely
are they one in the same.)”
― J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

“Patience with other people and oneself is a prized quality. I must control fits of restlessness and impulsivity. I need to exhibit imperturbability. I am inpatient because I resist suffering. I vehemently resist the tedium and tragedies that befall humankind. It is useless to seek to escape from the fate of all humanity. I acknowledge that humankind is fated – inexorably, inevitably, irrevocably – by birth to suffer. Every person must endure the arduous toil and grating monotony of working for a living, as well undergo the physical pain and emotional exhaustion that comes from leading a dreary life of industry. The greater a person’s anxiety and resistance to the ordinary troubles in life the greater their personal suffering. I can only ease the mind and live a heightened existence by stoically accepting fate. I aspire to embrace a path of nonresistance and cultivate a state of mental quietude. I will find inner peace only by demonstrating the courage to face the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. Courage, patience, and fortitude will eliminate an ingrained personal propensity to engage in self-sabotage. When my resistance to the inevitable fate of humanity ceases, I will no longer berate myself for past lapses, avoid fretting over the present, and feeling anxious about the future.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“Jack loved Hollywood but could never sit through a full reel. Fifteen, twenty minutes in, he took to pacing, tapping, scratching doodles on a pad. Jack Kennedy was never at rest.”
― Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack