Quotes about Restlessness
In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
— Job 4:13
When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
— Job 7:4
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
— Psalm 22:2
Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and distraught
— Psalm 55:2
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
— Psalm 102:7
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
— Ecclesiastes 1:8
Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
— Ecclesiastes 2:23
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!
— Micah 2:10
I had no peace in my spirit, because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I said goodbye to them and went on to Macedonia.
— 2 Corinthians 2:13
Eternal joy can never be taken from God's people. Therefore ambition, restlessness, and avarice can be put away for the first time as we rest more and more in the work of the Son of God.
— Michael Horton
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
— George Eliot
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.
— Pema Chodron