Top 188 Weariness Quotes & Sayings

I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.

Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.

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

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

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?

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

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

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

I like this feeling of weariness after training, when I'm walking home exhausted, dragging my feet. I like this a lot.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

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.

Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?

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.

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.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

Love life's weariness leavens.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.

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.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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

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

The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.

A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

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

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

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

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.

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

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.

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!

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.

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

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

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

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

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.

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

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

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

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.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

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

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.