Weary Quotes - Page 16

• Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse?

  Mark Akenside

  Pain, Grief, Healing

  Mark Akenside (2012). “Poetical Works of Akenside”, p.285, tredition

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• Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Home, Fields

  John Gillies, George Whitefield (1853). “Memoirs of the Rev. George Whitefield: To which is Appended an Extensive Collection of His Sermons and Other Writings”, p.243

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• Ah, many a one has started forth with hope and purpose high; Has fought throughout a weary life, and passed all pleasure by; Has burst all flowery chains by which men aye have been enthralled; Has been stone-deaf to voices sweet, that softly, sadly called; Has scorned the flashing goblet with the bubbles on its brim; Has turned his back on jewelled hands that madly beckoned him; Has, in a word, condemned himself to follow out his plan By stern and lonely labor--and has died, a conquered man!

  George Arnold

  Lonely, Sweet, Men

  George Arnold (1866). “Drift: A Sea-shore Idyl : and Other Poems”, p.60

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• All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fall, Men, Hunting

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

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• Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

  Charles Dickens

  Would Be, Gone, Way

  Charles Dickens (1872). “Our Mutual Friend”

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• To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Running, Dream, Stars

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

  Jefferson Smith

  Brain, Muscles, Exhaustion

  Jefferson Smith (2011). “Strange Places”, p.192, Indie Ink Publishing

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• Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

  Max Lucado

  Strong, Tired, Judgment

  Max Lucado (2013). “Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible”, p.75, Thomas Nelson

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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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• A smile costs nothing, but creates much, It happens in a flash, but the memory of it lasts forever, It cannot be bought, begged, borrowed nor stolen, but it is Something that is no earthly good to anyone until it is given away. So if in your hurry and rush You meet someone, who is too weary to give you a smile, Leave one of yours, For no one needs a smile quite as much as the one who has "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.

  Unknown

  Wall, Memories, Iron

  "To Althea, from Prison" l. 25 (1649)

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• Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Years, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (1906). “A Square Deal”

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• The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

  Florence L. Barclay

  Self, Liberty, Bondage

  Florence L. Barclay (2012). “The Rosary”, p.168, The Floating Press

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• New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Speech, Want, Way

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.125, Penguin

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• Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Despair, Fair Play

  Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.399, A&C Black

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• When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

  John Muir

  Wine, Sight, Blood

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.208, The Mountaineers Books

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• Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?

  William Shakespeare

  Party, Mean, Pride

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1716, Oxford University Press

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• Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Paul Laurence Dunbar (2004). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Penguin

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• See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!

  John Vianney

  Beautiful, Children, Doe

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• All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

  Eric Clapton

  Heart, Path, Cradle

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• Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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