Weary Quotes - Page 13

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Epicurus

Soul, Age, Too Late

Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.15, Lulu.com

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The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore.

Khalil

Stars, Heart, Blow

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My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I believe them both. I believe them both. I believe take up your cross and deny yourself and follow me, and I believe come unto me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest. They are different sides of the same thing.

Rick Warren

Believe, Giving, Scripture

Source: www.christianpost.com

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So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

John Steinbeck

Morning, Eye, Different

John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.47, Penguin

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It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.

Kenneth Grahame

Song, Hero, Home

Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.

Lord Byron

Dream, Writing, Play

Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.420, Xist Publishing

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

Edgar Allan Poe

Sad, Rap, Doors

"The Raven" l. 1 (1845)

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And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

John Keats

Art, Flower, Bed

John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.172

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I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention.

Jane Austen

Kings, War, Men

Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.87

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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me. I wish to spread it and bestow it, until the wise have once more become joyous in their folly, and the poor happy in their riches.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Wise, Hands, Wish

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Thou wayfaring Jesus - a pilgrim and stranger, Exiled from heaven by love at Thy birth: Exiled again from Thy rest in the manger, A fugitive child 'mid the perils of earth - Cheer with Thy fellowship all who are weary, Wandering far from the land that they love: Guide every heart that is homeless and dreary, Safe to its home in Thy presence above.

Henry Van Dyke

Jesus, Children, Cheer

Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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Long is the night for the sleepless. Long is the road for the weary. Long is samsara (the cycle of continued rebirth) for the foolish, who have not recognised the true teaching.

Gautama Buddha

Buddhist, Teaching, Night

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How long the night to the watchman, How long the road to the weary traveller, How long the wandering of many lives To the fool who misses the way.

Gautama Buddha

Night, Long, Meditation

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Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

Glenda Millard

Book, Home, Needs

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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

Czeslaw Milosz

Lying, Reality, Tree

"Child of Europe" sec. 4 (1946) (translation by Jan Darowski)

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The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside.

Moses Thatcher

Fear, Failure, Eye

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Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe that this view is in the main correct, because so many phenomena can thus be grouped end explained.

Charles Darwin

Believe, Views, People

Charles Darwin (1960). “Notebooks on Transmutation of Species”

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Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits, but hope spurs weary disciples on.

Neal A. Maxwell

Adversity, Winter, Land

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How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Christine de Pizan

Husband, Suffering, Slave

Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books

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Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Martin Luther

Education, Long, People

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You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.

Murasaki Shikibu

Country, Sky, Looks

Murasaki Shikibu (1935). “Blue trousers. The lady of the boat. The bridge of dreams”

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Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

Party, Food, Tea

Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

John Milton

Stars, Cells, Heaven

c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

Horace Mann

Knowledge, Childhood, Burning

Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.12

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