Weary Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• I have neither talent or taste for kingship, cousin. I am a warrior, and to dwell always in one place and live at court would weary me to death!

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Cousin, Warrior, Taste

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.739, Ballantine Books

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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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• i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

  Saul Williams

  Air, Wings, Shoes

  Saul Williams (2012). “She”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Tired, Blessing

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, VIII: The End of the World, 1925.

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• I stand here empty, waiting to b filled. I stand here weary of days bombarded with sorrows & ill. Yet, I STAND. For I know it is not of my strength; I know it is not my will. So with my eyes fixed on the prize and a rejoicing soul, I stand with a prayerful heart, waiting for my blessing. I stand, knowing my blessing will com.

  Shane Smith

  Motivational, Heart, Eye

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• To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Home, Wind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.281, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.

  Adam Lindsay Gordon

  Strong, Secret Places, Sea

  The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

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• I pray the gods will give me some relief and end this weary job. One long full year I've been lying here, on this rooftop, the palace of the sons of Atreus, resting on my arms, just like a dog. I've come to know the night sky, every star, the powers we see glittering in the sky, bringing winter and summer to us all, as the constellations rise and sink.

  Aeschylus

  Summer, Dog, Jobs

  "Oresteia: Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.

  Charles Dickens

  Stars, Moving, Night

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Little Dorrit: Extended Annotated & Illustrated Edition”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.

  Arthur Ashe

  Cheer, Fall, Heart

  Arthur Ashe's message to his daughter Camera, as quoted in Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad "Days of Grace: A Memoir" (p. 341), May 1, 1994.

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• Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  World, Bathroom, Cold

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.142, A&C Black

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• ...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

  Jan Karon

  Knowing, Understanding, Littles

  Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.242, Penguin

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• It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

  Mark Twain

  Giving Up, Taken, Long

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.225, 谷月社

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• Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Beautiful, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.361, Penguin

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• Struggling in my father's hands,
  Striving against my swaddling bands,
  Bound and weary, I thought best
  To sulk upon my mother's breast.

  William Blake

  Mother, Father, Struggle

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.166, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Omnipotence, Evil

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.309

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• We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

  Blaise Pascal

  Faith, Spiritual, Sleep

  Blaise Pascal (2016). “Pensées”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• Yesterday I visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart. The present is burdened too much with the past.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Crush, Heart, Past

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.634, e-artnow

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• Yet the companions of the Muses
  will keep their collective nose in my books
  And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Data, Historical

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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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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• I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands and thanking the Lord for the meals that the dear women had prepared, as if the whole came down like manna from heaven. So I preached a sermon in the blessing I gave. You will notice that it has three heresies in it: Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Husband, Father

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• Trust that through the balm of simplicity your frazzled and weary soul can discover the place where you ought to be. Every day offers us simple gifts when we are willing to search our hearts for the place that's right for each of us.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Simple, Simplicity

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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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