Weariness seemed to settle on him like a coating of dust.
When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.
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...
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
Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion
Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.
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.
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...
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...