Weary Quotes - Page 24

• When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Evil, Doe, Tire

  Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959). “A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ”

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• How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!

  Charles Lamb

  Cheer, Children, Husband

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• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Summer, Sweet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

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• Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

  George MacDonald (1893). “The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)”, p.333, Library of Alexandria

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• The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Vanity, Littles

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• Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed; A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light, A rosie garland and a weary hed.

  Philip Sidney

  Sweet, Sleep, Light

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet".

  Bob Dylan

  Dark, Cynical, World

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.

  Markus Zusak

  War, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My friends: let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary.

  Hillary Clinton

  Have Faith, Grows, My Friends

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Reality, Ideas, Interesting

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

  David

  Land, Water, Soul

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• If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Hurt, Angel, Twenties

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.28, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.

  William H. Gass

  Running, Eye, Mirrors

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• How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?

  Maria Gowen Brooks

  Loss, Gains, Bears

  Maria Gowen Brooks (1834). “Zóphiël: Or, The Bride of Seven”, p.140

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• And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" The Happy voice cry. Thus grew the tale of Wonderland

  Lewis Carroll

  Voice, Wonderland, Stories

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “The Complete Alice in Wonderland”, p.169, Dynamite

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• It is clear that the American people are weary of war. However, Assad gassing his own people is an issue of our national security, regional stability and global security.

  Nancy Pelosi

  War, Issues, People

  "Pelosi tells Obama to act on Syria" by Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman, www.politico.com. August 29, 2013.

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• In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.

  Sue Sanders

  Success, Business, Drama

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• There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a diamond; it made him weary behond comprehension. But it also made him free.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Real, Joy

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• Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Men, Raw Materials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• The old priest Peter Gilligan
  Was weary night and day;
  For half his flock were in their beds,
  Or under green sods lay.

  William Butler Yeats

  Night, Bed, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.137, Penguin

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• The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Names, Lakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.680, Delphi Classics

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• I had this thought a while ago,
  "My darling cannot understand
  What I have done, or what would do
  In this blind bitter land."
  And I grew weary of the sun

  William Butler Yeats

  Land, Done, Sun

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• When I hear of people who weary of each other, I believe it is because they have sought virtues in themselves alone, attractions of physical beauty. Have they based their love on each other's thoughts? Who can weary of thoughts which change every day?

  Anais Nin

  Believe, People, Virtue

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• Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the pursuit of knowledge. They lure the weary enquirer, the footsore seeker, on through the wilderness of disappointment in the present by their endless promises of the future: they take him up to the top of an exceeding high mountain and show him, beyond the dark clouds and rolling mists at his feet, a vision of the celestial city, far off, it may be, but radiant with unearthly splendour, bathed in the light of dreams.

  James G. Frazer

  Dream, Strong, Powerful

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