Quotes about Restlessness

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

That is, my sin drives me on, it will not give me rest or peace. Neither wine nor bread nor sleep will drive away this feeling of wrath and death.

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness…. Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: "You are accepted."

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.

We're all searching for a place where we feel safe and comfortable, a home where we can be truly ourselves. As we become more skilled in mindfulness and lay down the roots of fidelity, we can truly relax with our partner. All the restlessness and searching inside dissipates when we find our true home.

In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.