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"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”"
— Augustine of Hippo (The Confessions of Saint Augustine)

tags: general, rest, restlessness, revelation

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"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

From, The Book of Disquiet

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— Fernando Pessoa

tags: restlessness, soul

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"The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?"
— Stewart O'Nan (Songs for the Missing: A Novel)

tags: midwest, restlessness

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"I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

tags: human-nature, nature, restless, restlessness

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"Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him."
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

tags: dreams, hesse, restlessness, siddhartha, soul

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"...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still."
— Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

tags: hesse, intellect, restlessness, siddhartha, soul

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"I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."
— Hugo Claus

tags: fairness, injustice, life, restlessness, unfairness, unhappiness

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"My restlessness is my nemesis"
— Mos Def Dante Smith

tags: restlessness

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"If each moment is in love
with its image
in the mirror of
adjacent moments

(as if matter stuttered),

then, of course, we're restless!"
— Rae Armantrout (Next Life)

tags: matter, moment, restlessness

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