Quotes having the keyword Weary
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.
by Blaise Pascal (Philosopher, French , born in 1623) topics: Sports keywords: amuse, any, ball, billiards, cause, enough, even, frivolous, full, him, hitting, least, man, playing, reasons, such, sufficient, thing, though, thousand, thus, weariness, weary, without, would , wretched Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
by Adelaide Anne Procter (Poet, English , born in 1825) keywords: day, discordant, ease, echo, fingers, harmonious, idly, ill, keys, life, noisy, organ, our, over, seated, seemed, wandered , weary The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion.
by Ernie Pyle (Journalist, American , born in 1900) keywords: apart, behind, bodies, dead, even, every, exhaustion, feet, fifty, inhuman, line, looking, men, sag, slow, speaks, tell, their, them, walk, walking , weary Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.
by Leon Redbone (Musician, American , born in 1949) keywords: brings, close, day, dreaming, dreams, empty, here, joy, know, lonesome, means, sorrow, tomorrow, weary , wondering However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
by Frederick William Robertson (Clergyman, English , born in 1816) keywords: anything, become, character, christian, dark, done, existence, god, however, left, life, long, may, our, painful, suffer, us, weary , won The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (Writer, French , born in 1970) keywords: always, because, each, lovers, never, other, reason, talking, themselves , weary After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
by Morley Safer (Journalist, Canadian , born in 1931) keywords: after, because, coverage, different, difficult, five, four, grew, open, partly, really, vietnam, war, wars, weary , work O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
by William Shakespeare (Dramatist, English , born in 1970) keywords: flat, god, how, seem, stale, unprofitable, uses, weary , world The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road.
by George Robert Sims (Journalist, English , born in 1847) keywords: along, country, heavy, lad, lassie, long, road, way , weary I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
by Charles Spurgeon (Clergyman, British , born in 1834) keywords: afflicted, been, cheer, go, good, how, hundred, know, might, season, speak, spirit, times, weary, word , would We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
by Charles Stanley (Clergyman, American , born in 1932) keywords: after, alone, bodies, emotionally, energy, find, god, into, our, power, spending, strength, time, tired , weary I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer, Scottish , born in 1850) keywords: cathedral, churches, favorite, great, happily, inspired, kind, made, mankind, mountain, never, scenery , weary It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
by Robert Louis Stevenson (Writer, Scottish , born in 1850) topics: Nature keywords: air, beauty, changes, claim, forest, hearts, makes, men, much, old, quality, renews, something, spirit, subtle, trees, upon, weary , wonderfully During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
by Mika Waltari (Author, Finnish , born in 1908) keywords: am, come, differ, dread, during, gods, hope, immortality, kings, known, life, lost, much, only, other, own, past, prey, sake, seen, too, vain, weary, write , writers The Law is never weary of again and again repeating its injunction of local unity of worship.
by Julius Wellhausen (Educator, German , born in 1844) keywords: again, injunction, law, local, never, repeating, unity, weary , worship There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.
by Edward Weston (Photographer, American , born in 1886) keywords: after, always, bach, discordant, fresh, fugue, hold, moment, nothing, only, other, playing, records, remove, repeated, return, strong, up , weary Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
by George Whitefield (Clergyman, American , born in 1714) keywords: comfort, eternal, faint, harvest, reap, shall, therefore, us , weary Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
by William Butler Yeats (Poet, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: action, asleep, books, conversation, dead, design, get, living, may, nothing, paper, pride, repair, spend, their, thought, unless, waste, weary , wisdom
