Quotes about Restlessness

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

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

In the church today, we are falling prey to the appeal of "New!" The old truths of the gospel don't seem spectacular enough. We're restless for the latest, greatest, newest teaching or technique. We pastors in particular seem to search for a shortcut or some dynamic new strategy that will fire up our churches.

Western wind, when will thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad—early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes.

There was a midsummer restlessness abroad--early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes. With little more to expect from summer, one tried anxiously to live in the present--or, if there was no present, to invent one.

He was born sleepless without a talent for rest or the desire for it. --Cecelia Brady about Stahr

A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

She had the feeling that if she went home, she might never get away. She thought of birds caught in nets. There was something inside her, beating against her ribs, urging her to do things she might not otherwise attempt. She had the strongest desire to get lost.

She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter.