Weary Quotes - Page 15

• 'Cause if your love was all I had in this life, well that would be enough until the end of time. So rest your weary heart and relax your mind, 'Cause I'm gonna love you, girl, until the end of time.

  Justin Timberlake

  Funny, Girl, Love You

  Song: Until the End of Time

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• Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.

  Joseph Lowery

  Moving, Tired, White

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• After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

  Morley Safer

  War, Vietnam, Four

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• Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.

  Kathleen H. Hughes

  Stars, Mean, Home

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• That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

  William Wordsworth

  Blessed, Light, World

  'Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey' (1798) l. 37

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• The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Rain, Dark, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Rainy Day”

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• People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Vices, Resources

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.497

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• Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Gun, Brave

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

  Izaak Walton

  Dog, Sleep, Night

  Izaak Walton (1653). “The Complete Angler: Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation”, p.225

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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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