Weariness Quotes - Page 6

• Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Father, Blessing

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Sweet, Pain

  Robert Frost (1986). “Robert Frost”, Clarkson Potter

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• When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

  Isaac Watts

  Two, Mind, Three

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• There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Apples, Expectations, Way

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.142

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• For all things turn to barenness
  In the dim glass the demons hold
  The glass of outer weariness
  Made when God slept in times of old

  Loreena McKennitt

  Song, Glasses, Demon

  Song: Ce Hé Mise le Ulaingt

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• Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.

  Margaret Deland

  Christmas, Years, Soul

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• The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.

  Ashley Montagu

  Mother, Baby, Emotional

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• When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?

  Sengcan

  Practice, Judging, Benefits

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• Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Block, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Dec. 1, 1853-Aug. 31, 1854”

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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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• I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

  Rose Kennedy

  Age, Defeat, Knows

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• St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Loss, Years, Remembrance

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

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• In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: - feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Kindness, Heart

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Fall, Rivers

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• Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sleep, Equality, Liberty

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.444, Courier Corporation

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• How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.

  John Burroughs

  Book, Reading, Doe

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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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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• The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

  Cyril Connolly

  Civilization, Luxury, Goal

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• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  Heraclitus

  Evil, Disease, Hunger

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• It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

  Heraclitus

  Work, Toiling

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• The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Home

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.175, Booklassic

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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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• In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.

  Gao Xingjian

  Views, Nausea, Literature

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• Love life's weariness leavens.

  Henri Cazalis

  Love, Love Life

  Henri Cazalis, “Always”

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• This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early weariness; and sometimes tears in his eyes, Which he let slip unconsciously on his cheek, Or brushed away with an unconcerned hand. There were tears for human suffering, or for a glance Into the vast futility of life, Which he had seen from the first, being old When he was born.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Eye, Men, Futility Of Life

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