Weariness seemed to settle on him like a coating of dust.
When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.
and the castle in which she dwelt was a prison to her; and sometimes sudden fits of gusty passion would overtake her, for weariness grew to hate, and hate to wrath,"The Serpent's Head
I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has b...
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion
Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.
It is very easy to grow tired at collecting; the period of a low tide is about all men can endure. At first the rocks are bright and every moving animal makes his mark on the attention. The picture is...
Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while...