Weariness Quotes - Page 6

• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Strong, Stars, Betrayal

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Iron

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Children, Volcanoes, Delight

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• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

  Andre Gide

  Age, Becoming, Virtue

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• Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And Fear her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.

  Lord Byron

  Cheer, Inspire, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• Miracle woman ... Your mouth is wine, and all your tender flesh An easeful meadow for my weariness.

  Donald Evans

  Women, Wine, Miracle

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• Weariness, sometimes more than anything else, can bring an end to war.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  War, Sometimes, Ends

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2010). “Under Heaven”, p.419, Penguin

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• Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Reading, Joy

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.75, SPCK

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• We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness...Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Cheer, Joy

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• Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

  Solomon

  Book, Flesh, Study

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• In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Joy, Anxiety

  "Children of the Albatross". Book by Anais Nin, 1947.

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• The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Drama, Hands, Dysfunction

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Expression, Limits, Determined

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Insomnia, Matter, Consciousness

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov”, p.488, Vintage

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• Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

  John Calvin

  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

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• Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

  Blaise Pascal

  Death, Sadness, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (2012). “Pascal's Pensées”, p.105, tredition

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• What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Success, Hope, Sleep

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• Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Waiting, Weakness

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• Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster;
  There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so!
  As on we tramped exultantly, and no man was our master,
  And no man guessed what dreams were ours, as, swinging heel and toe,
  We tramped the road to Anywhere, the magic road to Anywhere,
  The tragic road to Anywhere, such dear, dim years ago.

  Robert W. Service

  Dream, Men, Years

  Robert W. Service (2012). “Robert W. Service: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.50, Dundurn

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• Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.

  George D. Prentice

  Time, Sleep, Night

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• Passion makes the old medicine new:
  Passion lops off the bough of weariness.
  Passion is the elixir that renews:
  how can there be weariness
  when passion is present?
  Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:
  seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

  Rumi

  Love, Passion, Medicine

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.91, Lulu.com

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• After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.

  John Henry Newman

  Struggle, Fighting, White

  John Henry Newman (1997). “Parochial and Plain Sermons”, p.1416, Ignatius Press

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• The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.

  Francois Fenelon

  Education, Sides, Common

  "Selections from the Writings of Fenelon: With an Appendix, Containing a Memoir of His Life". Book by François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon, Eliza Lee Cabot Follen (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins), p. 72, 1829.

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• Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

  Amy Johnson

  Eye, Boredom, Simplicity

  Amy Johnson (1939). “Sky Roads of the World”

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• A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of "omission" as well as "commission." You can feed, clothe, and house your kids and not really parent them. When we raise kids for selfish reasons (to feel proud, to have people love us and appreciate us), if they disappoint us we'll pull back. But when we realize that God has called us to raise godly children and God is always worthy to be obeyed, we have a motivation that goes beyond our own pride and our own comfort.

  Gary L. Thomas

  Motivation, Children, Selfish

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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