These weariness quotes will inspire you. Weariness, exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness or expressing or characteristic of weariness a weary sign.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging weariness quotes, weariness sayings, and weariness proverbs.
Best Weariness Quotes
- “Exercise is labor without weariness.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.” ~ John Ruskin
- “When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don’t pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.” ~ Luis Palau
- “The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.” ~ Bertrand Russell , Weariness quotes of life
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“The greatest weariness comes from work not done.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.” ~ John Calvin
- “When the morning’s freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- “Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” ~ Robert W. Service
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“All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.” ~ Andre Agassi
- “Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.” ~ Blaise Pascal
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ~ Anais Nin
- “Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source.” ~ Anais Nin
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“Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Sweetest love, I do not go, For weariness of thee, Nor in hope the world can show A fitter love for me; But since that I Must die at last, ’tis best, To use my self in jest Thus by feign’d deaths to die.” ~ John Donne
- “No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “Hope is a song in a weary throat.” ~ Pauli Murray
- “If you’re feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There’s nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it’s not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say ‘Well done.’ But until then, until then, you’re not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He’ll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, ‘You are mine.'” ~ Nick Vujicic
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“When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.” ~ Elmer Davis
- “I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest — blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them – a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,– And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
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“To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.” ~ Francois Rabelais
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“Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “I, too, am going to go away soon,’ she says, ‘I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.” ~ Erich Maria Remarque
- “Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Think of working forever at something you love to do, for one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.” ~ Billy Graham , Tired and weariness quotes
- “Saying yes all the time won’t make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.” ~ Lysa TerKeurst
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“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
- “Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father’s will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.” ~ George MacDonald
- “Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations – and seen them die, and seen new ones born again – Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.” ~ Beryl Markham
- “That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.” ~ George Eliot
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“It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.” ~ Heraclitus
- “It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.” ~ Sherwood Anderson
- “The pervasive brutality in current fiction – the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord – is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.” ~ Tom Robbins
- “The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.” ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.” ~ Paul Eldridge
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“I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
- “I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death’s own hand is warmer than my own. I don’t wish to live any longer.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- “I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness overwhelms me and I don’t know what’s the matter. That is, I know but I won’t admit it. I’m just tired from writing. As you get older, writing becomes harder. By that I mean you see so many more potentialities. Things like transition used to trouble me. But not any more. When I say it’s harder, I’m not talking about facility. You learn all the so-called tricks, but then you don’t want to use them.” ~ John Steinbeck
- “I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I’m not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.” ~ Quentin S. Crisp
- “The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.” ~ Ashley Montagu , Feeling weariness quotes
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“It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.” ~ Andre Gide
- “Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.” ~ Kay Redfield Jamison
- “The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.” ~ Cyril Connolly
- “In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration: – feelings, too, Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man’s life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.” ~ William Wordsworth
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“I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.” ~ Rose Kennedy
- “Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know.” ~ John Burroughs
- “When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations?” ~ Sengcan
- “He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.” ~ Hermann Hesse
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“It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.” ~ Heraclitus
- “For all things turn to barenness
In the dim glass the demons hold
The glass of outer weariness
Made when God slept in times of old” ~ Loreena McKennitt - “A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of “omission” as well as “commission.” You can feed, clothe, and house your kids and not really parent them. When we raise kids for selfish reasons (to feel proud, to have people love us and appreciate us), if they disappoint us we’ll pull back. But when we realize that God has called us to raise godly children and God is always worthy to be obeyed, we have a motivation that goes beyond our own pride and our own comfort.” ~ Gary L. Thomas
- “In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea.” ~ Gao Xingjian
- “What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.” ~ Franz Grillparzer
- “Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness–they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
