Weariness Quotes

• Exercise is labor without weariness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fitness, Exercise, Labor

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• Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

  John Ruskin

  Workout, Simplicity, Consumerism

  The Eagle's Nest ch. 5 (1872)

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• 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.

  Luis Palau

  Men, Confusion, Stronger

  Luis Palau (1986). “So You Want to Grow”

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• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Pain, Night

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest weariness comes from work not done.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Energy, Done

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• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

  John Calvin

  Fear, Sailing, Mind

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Morning, Determination, Giving

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• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Passion, Heart, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  Robert W. Service

  Anger, Adversity, Climbing

  "Sand: The Never-ending Story". Book by Michael Welland, p. 30, 2009.

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• 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.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sports, Men, Play

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• All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

  Andre Agassi

  Tired, Sides, Stuff

  Twitter post from Jul 09, 2012

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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

  William Shakespeare

  Sloth, Laziness, Pillow

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

  Eric Hoffer

  Being Yourself, Being Single, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, 'tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign'd deaths to die.

  John Donne

  Love, Death, Self

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'Song: Sweetest love, I do not go'

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• No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spiritual, Mind, Remains

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• If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'

  Nick Vujicic

  Beautiful, Father, Son

  FaceBook post by Nick Vujicic from Jun 20, 2013

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• Hope is a song in a weary throat.

  Pauli Murray

  Inspirational, Hope, Song

  Pauli Murray (1970). “Dark testament: and other poems”

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

  Elmer Davis

  Men, Half, Telling The Truth

  On not being Dead, as Reported

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• Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Sweat, People

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Contractions

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Fall, Sleep

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

  Francois Rabelais

  Sleep, Comfort, Hearing

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

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Failure, Boredom, Defeat

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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