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“The restlessness has begun, like a low hum in my belly. It follows me through my days. I am sleepless nights. The comfort found only in quiet.”

Book:I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

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“Many ways she tried, of escape. She became an assiduous church-goer. But the language meant nothing to her: it seemed false. She hated to hear things expressed, put into words. Whilst the religious feelings were inside her they were passionately moving. In the mouth of the clergyman, they were false, indecent. She tried to read. But again the tedium and the sense of falsity of the spoken word put her off. She went to stay with girl friends. At first she thought it splendid. But then the inner boredom came on, it seemed to her all nothingness. And she felt always belittled, as if never, never could she stretch her length and stride her stride.”

Restlessness Limits Of Language

Book:The Rainbow

Source: The Rainbow

“This landscape consists of Pablo Casals' cello and four turkey vultures riding the ribbon of warm air rising from the highway. Concrete forms for abstractions my mind can only grope at: the wings and blood, the blue and black and float and soar, the aching beauty.”

Marriage Self Realization Restlessness Midlife Birding

Book:The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration

Source: The Black Swan: Memory, Midlife, and Migration

“With Zugunruhe comes the sign that you can trust your heart and mind.”

Parenting Parenthood Parents And Children Children S Books Restlessness Children S Literature Parental Love Zugunruhe Arctic Tern

Book:Dreams of Zugunruhe

Source: Dreams of Zugunruhe

“The great remedy for restlessness is to relax in faith in a righteous God.”

God Motivational Restlessness

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Faith lets you see the possibility in every situation. Others may see a desert but what you see is a place where virtually everything can be grown.”

Possibility Desert Uncertainty Possibilities Overwhelmed Restless Exhaustion Restlessness Keep The Faith Struggling

Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“Maybe this restlessness is serving to keep some part of me alive. Or maybe I move to avoid making - making words, friends, and love. I do spread my heart thinly as I go. Will I ever accept that the most mythic, meaningful life might lie in the ordinary? The kingdom of details and daily reprises. For now, I’m stunned by all things static. Scared by the idea that a home might exist for me somewhere.”

Restlessness

Book:Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

Source: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

“There is a constitution that some have, and I had it---to which everything foreign is wondrous, and all that is domestic, tiresome.”

Wonder Personality Boredom Novelty Restlessness Ennui Commonness Triteness

Book:Census

Source: Census

“Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless centre.”

India Restlessness

Book:English, August: An Indian Story

Source: English, August: An Indian Story

“The restlessness of a heartbroken Genius often destroys the world.”

World Philosophy Life Lessons Genius Intelligence Disaster Apocalypse Restlessness Pradip Bendkule Distroy

Author:Pradip Bendkule

“I am tossed about and taken without Warning, like an apple dropped into a Vast river, flowing, crashing, out to Sea Where birds, desperate for sustenance Eat what they find”

Poetry Lost Restless Restlessness Poetry Quote I Don T Know

Book:Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope

Source: Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope

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