Weary Quotes - Page 10

• So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
  That I would set my life on any chance,
  To mend, or be rid on't.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Chance, Disaster

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.130

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• O Life! thou art a galling load,
  Along a rough, a weary road,
  To wretches such as I!

  Robert Burns

  Life, Art, Speech

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.32

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• We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

  George Sand

  Stupid, Ambition, People

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Years, Sky

  Peter Brian Medawar (1979). “Advice to a young scientist”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• To right, the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from a-far, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star.

  Jack Jones

  Inspirational, Stars, Trying

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• Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must put himself behind them. In this way, though he has his place above them, the people do not feel his weight; though he has his place before them, they do not feel it as an injury. Therefore all mankind delight to exalt him, and weary of him not.

  Laozi

  Humility, People, Wish

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• This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears,
  Built as it has been in our waning years,
  A rest afforded to our weary feet,
  Preliminary to - the last retreat.

  William Cowper

  Home, Sight, Years

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.172

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• If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the officers are angry, it means that the men are weary.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Mean

  Sun Tzu “The Art of War”, Lulu.com

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• The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud
  With white neck peering to the evening clowd.
  The weary rooks to distant woods are gone.
  With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on
  To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow
  While small birds nestle in the edge below.

  John Clare

  Fall, White, Swans

  John Clare, “Autumn Birds”

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• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Sonnet 27

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• To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

  Charles Dickens

  Country, War, Rain

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Barnaby Rudge: And, Hard Times”, p.90

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• The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
  It rains, and the wind in never weary;
  The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
  But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
  And the day is dark and dreary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Rain, Fall

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.18, Library of America

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• The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.

  Thomas Adams

  Peace, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Adams (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.728

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• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fate, Science

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

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• No, there are no long stages of preparation through which you must pass; all things are now ready; there is nothing to hinder you from becoming a Christian this very hour. And, if any of you have been trying to make yourself better until you are weary and discouraged in the work, all you have to do is to put it into stronger hands.

  Washington Gladden

  Christian, Hands, Long

  Washington Gladden (1876). “Being a Christian: what it Means and how to Begin”

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• Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Fall, Arms

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3594, Delphi Classics

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• For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning.

  Willa Cather

  Strong, Lying, Winning

  Willa Cather (2000). “The Troll Garden: Short Stories”, p.18, U of Nebraska Press

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• The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

  Cesare Pavese

  Revenge, Deeds, Lasts

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.347, Transaction Publishers

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• O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.49

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• And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Cry, Incessant

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

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• What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Long, Giving, Imagination

  "Aphorisms and Reflections" by John Lancaster Spalding, (pp. 180-181), 1901.

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• Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.

  Louis Nizer

  Morning, Book, Golf

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• Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

  Gelett Burgess

  Victory, Suits, Triumph

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• Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

  Aphra Behn

  Night, Light, Steps

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• Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Retirement, Prayer, Blessed

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

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