Restless Spirit Quotes

• It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dust, Joy, Sorrow

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2005). “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

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• My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

  Buffalo Bill

  Home, Roaming Around, Long

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.93, U of Nebraska Press

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• Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Fall, Autumn, Air

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

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• A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Tongue, Spirit, Comic

  Louisa May Alcott (2010). “Little Women”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.31, 谷月社

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• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Fall, Autumn

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6444, Delphi Classics

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• Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dream, Heart, Literature

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2005). “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Hope, Shadow

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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• I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard.

  Salvatore Ferragamo

  Blessed, Hard Work, Looks

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• A talkative soul lacks both the essential virtues and intimacy with God. A deeper interior life, one of gentle peace and of that silence where the Lord dwells, is quite out of the question. A soul that has never tasted the sweetness of inner silence is a restless spirit which disturbs the silence of others.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Silence, Soul, Essentials

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• It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dream, Spring, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2007). “Letters from Scandinavia”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Home, Goal

  Song: Still Searching, Album: Phobia

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• …You see, my dear friend, I am made up of contradictions, and I have reached a very mature age without resting upon anything positive, without having calmed my restless spirit either by religion or philosophy. Undoubtedly I should have gone mad but for music. Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven's gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. It is not the straw to which the drowning man clings; but a true friend, refuge, and comforter, for whose sake life is worth living

  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

  Beautiful, True Friend, Philosophy

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• Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Hands, Imagination

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• No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Luxury, Long

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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• Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Retirement, Grief, Meditation

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• The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.

  Ernest Renan

  Light, People, Evil

  Ernest Renan (1883). “Recollections of My Youth”

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