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
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion
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...
One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.
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 qual...
Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so.
For some must watch while some must sleep thus runs the world away.