Weary Quotes

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.

Technique! The very word is like a shriek of outraged Art. It is the idiot name given to effort by those who are too weak, too weary, or too dull to play the game. The mighty have no theory of technique.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.