Feeling Restless Quotes

#1. So I am praying while not knowing how to pray. I am resting while feeling restless, at peace while tempted, safe while still anxious, surrounded by a cloud of light while still in darkness, in love while still doubting.

Henri Nouwen

#2. the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art

Lawrence Durrell

#3. I was feeling really restless in my hard-rock band. I wanted to learn more about storytelling in music, and that's what country music is.

Lindsey Haun

#4. I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

Brendan Behan

#5. They would allow no woman to be forced to marry against her will they told the newcomers, nor would they surrender any suppliant, no matter how feeble, and no matter how powerful the pursuer.

Edith Hamilton

#6. The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

Peter Matthiessen

#7. I breathed him in, feeling the effect of him - his nearness, his support - permeate my being. The smell of his soap was muted now, the naturally seductive scent of his skin altering the fragrance into something richer and more delicious. When I was restless, he settled me.

Sylvia Day

#8. I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

Sinclair Lewis

#9. It was a fantastic feeling, but it left me restless because the most important thing in it was the longing, for what was going to be, not for what I did or had done.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#10. When Adam ate the irrevocable apple, Thou
Saw'st beyond death the resurrection of the dead

C.S. Lewis

#11. My creative powers have been reduced to a restless indolence. I cannot be idle, yet I cannot seem to do anything either. I have no imagination, no more feeling for nature, and reading has become repugnant to me. When we are robbed of ourselves, we are robbed of everything.

Sally Brampton

#12. If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Howard Zinn

#13. There's a restless feeling knocking on my door today ...

Alison Krauss

#14. The dreadful nostalgia for a wasted life,
the fatal feeling that you were born too late,
or the restless hope for an impossible morning
with the nearby restlessness of the flesh's ache

Federico Garcia Lorca

#15. Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

William Blake

#16. I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it"? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it - that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?

Virginia Woolf

#17. The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.

Pope Gregory I

#18. Bill Tilden was the greatest - and most improbably great - tennis player of the age.

Bill Bryson

#19. The cocoon like water, the labored trance and rhythmic breath of lap swimming had done their work, had unwound the restless feeling into nothingness.

A.M. Jenkins

#20. Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#21. Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Fran Lebowitz

#22. You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.

Karen Armstrong

#23. Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.

Pema Chodron

#24. True story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

John Gribbin

#25. I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

Jessica Lange

#26. Mother's Eden: Does your Matthew ... Well, does he make you feel as if he just handed you a handful of Stars?
Eden: He make me feel as if he handed me the moon as well, Mama. Maybe the whole universe.

Catherine Anderson

#27. Out past isn't who we are. I'm me and you're you and that's who we need to be.

K.A. Tucker

#28. Thinking first of money instead of work brings fear.

Henry Ford