Quotes about Weariness
I believe I see what the week is for: it is to give time to rest up from the weariness of Sunday.
- Mark Twain
Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
- Oscar Wilde
Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs
- William Faulkner
one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.
- Graham Greene
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
- John Knox
The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace
- JM Coetzee
When men are tired of hearing and meditating upon the things of God, the fault lies within; in the background there is greed, and behind that sacrilege, and behind that again profanity. Let us search our hearts, and find whether the things of God have become merely a duty, a weariness, that we would relinquish if we dare, and to which we only hold for the sake of appearances.
- G Campbell Morgan
I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
- Herman Melville
But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
- Herman Melville
As she looked at him, her dark gray eyes went slowly from astonishment to stillness, then to a strange expression that resembled a look of weariness, except that it seemed to reflect much more than the endurance of this one moment.
- Ayn Rand
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.
- Ann Voskamp
If you've lived your life looking for someone to take care of you but you always end up taking care of everyone else, your search is over. God has what you need, and you'll never wear Him out.
- Beth Moore