Weary Quotes - Page 25

• We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Bores, Company, Persons

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• His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Powerful, Heart, Circles

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Walter W. Arndt (1989). “The Best of Rilke: 72 Form-true Verse Translations with Facing Originals, Commentary, and Compact Biography ; Translated by Walter Arndt ; Foreword by Cyrus Hamlin”, p.161, UPNE

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• There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Humility, Men, Two

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Kidnapped: Stevenson's Vol. 23”, p.92, VM eBooks

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• Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Moving, Numbers

  1595 Epithalamion, section 16.

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• The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Tables, Firsts, Hours

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• And so I ask, "Would You agree that sex is where philosophy begins?" But God, who is the oldest of the philosophers, answers in his weary cryptic way, "Rather think of Sex as Time, and Time as the connection of new circuits.

  Norman Mailer

  God, Time, Sex

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House

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