“ 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 Lady Dilke
“ 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… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love?- Epithalamion Edmund Spenser
“ 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… John Steinbeck
“ Thou hast been called O sleep! the friend of woe But 'tis the happy who have called thee so. Robert Southey
“ One of the most adventurous things left is to go to bed for no one can lay a hand on our dreams. E. V. Lucas
“ 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… Bertrand Russell
“ 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… Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Weariness, which seeketh to get to the ultimate with one leap, with a death-leap; a poor ignorant weariness, unwilling even to will any longer: that created all Gods and backworlds. Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thoughtAs Hermes with his lyre in sleep profoundThe hundred wakeful e… Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“ What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world. Francis Marion Crawford
“ The day had begun to feel tinny: a pretend day, a dream day, that for some unaccountable reason she had to go on and on with as if it were real. Sarah Waters
