Restless Quotes

“Do you ever feel that way?"
"Lonely?"
I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it."
He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have.
"Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last.
"What?"
"Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers

“Estelle used to call these the restless days, when the warmer-blooded gods began to stir, and the cold ones began to settle. When dreamers were most prone to bad ideas, and wanderers were likely to get lost.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Do not turn me
into
restless waters

if you cannot promise
to be my stream.”
― Sanober Khan

“When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.”
― Amit Kalantri

“God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden...
The best gift of the desert is God's presence... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

“Wild things have restless wings that too often need to fly.”
― Michael Xavier

“I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I want to find something. Yes, that's it, I want to find something.”
― Agatha Christie, Endless Night

“As you entered the room
stirring air with suppleness of walk,
waking up the stillness with jingles of cymbals,
making curtains dance to the sound of bangles:
aroma wafted into air from canvas and copybooks,
my paintbrush grew restless,
and pen became enraptured;
my eyes, and hands. and this and that
became electrified.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Pledge

“The end-of-summer winds make people restless.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“All of them had a restlessness in common.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally shocked to still be alive—so it sings this really beautiful song.”
― Gus Van Sant Restless

“Those who wake at this hour feel a lonely separation from everyone but night birds and ghost crabs, never imagining the legion of kindred souls scattered in the darkness, who stare at ceilings and pace floors and look out windows and covet and worry and mourn.”
― Kathy Hepinstall, Blue Asylum

“I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies”
― Sinclair Lewis, Arrowsmith

“Books mimic adrenaline to the narratively restless: nests of worlds in which the mind takes predestined flights from time and place.”
― Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays

“There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth”
― Carl Henegan

“I wasn't entirely sure that even with the hardships he'd encountered Under the Mountain, Tarquin could understand the darkness that might always be in me. Not only from Amarantha, but from years spent hungry, and desperate.

That I might always be a little bit vicious or restless. That I might crave peace, but never a cage of comfort.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“To know light is to be restless, to know life is to be breathless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“To know life is to be restless with light.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“The creative, the restless, and the driven are not content with the status quo, and they look for ways to move forward, to do things that others have not. And once a pathfinder shows how something can be done, others can learn the technique and follow. Even if the pathfinder doesn’t share the particular technique, as is the case with Richards, simply knowing that something is possible drives others to figure it out.”
― Anders Ericsson, Peak: How all of us can achieve extraordinary things

“Humans so liked to choose the wrong men as their leaders.”
― Cornelia Funke, Reckless

“Do you sleep better in a closed bedroom or a well-ventilated bedroom?”
― Steven Magee

“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”
― Cheryl Seely Savage, Give Me a Fragment: Glimpses into Motherhood, Depression, and Hope

“I sat to take in the view. The wind blew just hard enough to push my heavy, unkept hair back. I filled my lungs with the cool air and felt roots begin to take hold. I had always been a restless person, even at this early point in life, and this was a new experience: peace. I felt as though the trees and earth of the mountain reached up into my soul and curled around it, making it whole. The inky blackness I had yet to name, the dark pit that buzzed just below my surface and corroded my thoughts, was quieted. For a moment, it was like I didn't feel it at all.

When my mom asked me what was wrong, I told her exactly how I felt as best I could.

"My home is in Georgia, but my soul is at home here.”
― Leah Myers, Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

“A migraine walked into the bedroom and said to the body aches, " So, we are linking up with anxiety tonight or nah?”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“There’s a code amongst the restless spirits of the world. You have to show each other that there is something more to life than the action- the moments when you lose yourself in the flood.”
― Guy Winter, Billionaire Suicide Club

“When you're restless, you're alive and awake, not sleepwalking in your life or in your creative practice. You value independent thinking of compliance, experimentation, and risk over the sure thing. Restless riders are flexible and nimble; they resist doing the same thing again, and again, even if that thing was successful and well received. They refused to rest on their laurels.”
― Maggie Smith, Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life