“All of them had a restlessness in common.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I cannot rest from travel: I will drink
Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone.”
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Life to the lees: all times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone.”
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“I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
― The Little Cow and the Turtle
― The Little Cow and the Turtle
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