#restlessness

...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

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe in the silence and solitude of the spot, and allow my mind's eye to dwell on whatever bright visions rose before it - and, certainly, they were many and glowing; to let my heart be heaved by the exultant movement, which, while it swelled it in trouble, expanded it with life; and, best of all, to open my inward ear to a tale that was never ended - a tale my imagination created, and narrated continuously; quickened with all of incident, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not in my actual existence. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#imagination #restlessness #imagination

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

— William Shakespeare

#restlessness #art

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. ↗

— Louis Simpson

#capitalism #freedom #frontier #individualism #liberalism

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things. ↗

— Hugo Claus

#injustice #life #restlessness #unfairness #unhappiness

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#nature #restless #restlessness #nature