#restless

When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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Groping blindly in the darkness, he sank between the white mounds of cool feathers and slept as he fell, across the bed or with his head downward, pushing deep into the softness of the pillows, as if in sleep he wanted to drill through, to explore completely, that powerful massif of feather bedding rising out of the night. ↗

— Bruno Schulz

#dreams #rest #restless-sleepers #sleep #sleeping

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

— Hermann Hesse

#intellect #restlessness #siddhartha #soul #intellect

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#restlessness #art

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near. ↗

— Samuel Hoffenstein

#bored #darling #dear #dejected #feel

I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome. ↗

— Taylor Lautner

#bounce #did #distracts #even #i

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#constituents #court #effect #government #government offices

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before I shot Shine. I do not know why. I was pretty restless, I had been through a bad period of stress induced anxiety - panic attacks - and I was not sure of what I wanted to do. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#attacks #bad #been #before #business

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. ↗

— John Ruskin

#others #restlessness #slaves #some #their

But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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