125 Growing Weary Quotes

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Famous Growing Weary Quotes

As the world is weary of me so am I of it. - John Knox

As the world is weary of me so am I of it. — John Knox

A man grows most tired while standing still. — Chinese Proverbs

Life is one long process of getting tired. — Samuel Butler

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. - John Ruskin

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. — John Ruskin

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Fannie Lou Hamer

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. - Homer

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. — Homer

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. — Laurence Sterne

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. — William James

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. - George S. Patton

Fatigue makes cowards of us all. — George S. Patton

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth. — Edward Albee

I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? — Langston Hughes

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. - Erin Morgenstern

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. — Erin Morgenstern

And I'm no quitter, but I'm tired of fighting. — Blake Shelton

Even though it's tiring, I'm having the time of my life. — Big Sean

Short Growing Weary Quotes

  • All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. — Wilfred Owen
  • I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. — George McGovern
  • Love fed fat soon turns to boredom. — Ovid
  • Exercise is labor without weariness. — Samuel Johnson
  • You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. — John Lennon

Growing Weary Image Quotes

Growing weary quote Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.

I Am Weary Quotes

As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all individuals from institutional discrimination. That said, I am weary of the ethos of victimhood that has parasitized our culture. — Gad Saad

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead. — Aphra Behn

in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned. — Dorothea Dix

Growing weary quote A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

We all walk in a land of dreams. For what are we but atoms and hope, a handful of stardust and sinew? We are weary travelers trying to find our way home on a road that never ends. Am I a part of your dream? or are you but a part of mine? — Libba Bray

I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full. — Ravi Zacharias

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don’t know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on. — Arthur Ashe

Growing weary quote Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die. — George Whitefield

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again! — Elizabeth Chase Allen

Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair. — Louis Nizer

Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life. — Kathryn Scott

Getting Tired Quotes

I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time. — Nick Saban

God always forgives when you are totally repentant and you desire to change. He forgives... and He never gets tired of forgiving. Never. You may get tired asking. I hope not. He never, never tires of forgiving. Never. — Mother Angelica

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. I'd wonder if he was still working out. I'd tried to visualize him. When I could see him working, I'd start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder. — Dan Gable

Growing weary quote The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music. — Ray Charles

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Mortimer Caplan

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard

If you're going to wake up early all the time, and you're working hard, and you're working out, sometimes you're going to get tired. It's OK. It's acceptable - somewhat. We're all human, unfortunately. — Jocko Willink

No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting. — Megan Fox

Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out. — Jon Gordon

Weary Quotes

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. — Paul the Apostle

So shines a good deed... in a weary world. — Gene Wilder

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us. — Charles Spurgeon

Growing weary quote Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. — Charles Stanley

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. — Brother Lawrence

Growing weary quote Don't regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.
Don't regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. — Anais Nin

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. — Thomas Gray

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin

Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead.. .because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes the strain. The goal beckons them onward. Passion doesn't negate weariness; it just resolves to press beyond it. — Priscilla Shirer

World Weary Quotes

Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill. — J. R. R. Tolkien

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it. — Emily Bronte

Love is when you would go to the very end of the world with her, and in case she feels weary and tired in between the journey, you would carry her till the end. — Kenneth Williams

Growing weary quote Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh — William Shakespeare

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! — William Shakespeare

Growing weary quote Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.

God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world. — F.B. Meyer

Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all. — Sayings

Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here. — Lord Dunsany

Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream. — Helen Keller

Weary Heart Quotes

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave. — Eric Clapton

Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths. — Alexander von Humboldt

My yoke is easy, and my burden light. - Saint Boniface

My yoke is easy, and my burden light. — Saint Boniface

Growing weary quote Groups cannot grow, unless individuals grow within the group.
Groups cannot grow, unless individuals grow within the group.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent. — Giacomo Casanova

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

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Growing weary quote The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and s
The tiny seed knew that in order to grow it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered in darkness, and struggle to reach the light.

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

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him. — Ellen G. White

Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing. — William Wilberforce

Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart. — Albert Camus

Feeling Tired Quotes

Love the feeling of coding until you get so tired thinking becomes slow, and then you go to sleep knowing you’ll be refreshed and right back at it in the morning. — Greg Brockman

I think a lot of people feel like there’s something wrong with experiencing human emotions. It’s okay to feel stressed, angry, tired, or uncomfortable, those are the emotions that make existence beautiful. — Alex Hormozi

We say yes to every invite, and then we feel tired and anxious and stressed and overworked and burnt out. — Jay Shetty

Growing weary quote Theres only so much growing you can do in your comfort zone.
Theres only so much growing you can do in your comfort zone.

Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong. — Poul Hartling

Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves. — Dan Castellaneta

This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America. — Fred Thompson

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power. — Auberon Waugh

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. — Paula Poundstone

I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel respect for their human dignity, which is neither less nor different from the dignity of any other human being. — Mother Teresa

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero. — Akshay Kumar

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More Growing Weary Quotes

With her for guide, you shall never go astray; while invoking her, you shall never lose heart; so long as she is in your mind, you are safe from deception; while she holds your hand, you cannot fall; under her protection you have nothing to fear; if she walks before you, you shall not grow weary; if she shows you favor, you shall reach the goal. — Bernard of Clairvaux

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. — Czeslaw Milosz

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. — Ceslaw Milosz

Let's save some time here. I grow weary of your clumsy bluffs. In the case of an abduction, the LEP will send a crack Retrieval team to get back what has been lost.. You have done so. Excuse me while I titter. Crack team? Honestly. A Cub-Scout patrol armed with water pistols could have defeated them. — Eoin Colfer

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me! — Leigh Hunt

It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year. — Theodore Gordon

If we grow weary and give up, the goal remains for someone else to achieve. — Zig Ziglar

I welcome the autumnal chill in the air. There is a stimulation about it. Life moves to a different rhythm. There is a sense of change in the atmosphere and change is good inasmuch as it prevents stagnation. We should grow weary of a summer that never ended. — Patience Strong

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are. — Alan Cohen

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. — Laurence Binyon

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

The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste. — Norman Mailer

Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying. — Watchman Nee

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups. — Steve Martin

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus. — Thomas A. Edison

We must not indulge our inclinations, as we do little children, till they grow weary of the thing they are unwilling to let go. We must not continue our sinful practices in hopes that the divine grace will one day overpower our spirits, and make us hate them for their own deformity. — Henry Scougal

Yes, in the poor man's garden grow Far more than herbs and flowers - Kind thoughts, contentment, peace of mind, And Joy for weary hours. — Mary Howitt

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal. — James A. Baldwin

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. — Benjamin Franklin

I lie in an early bed thinking late thoughts, waiting for the black to replace my blue. I do not struggle in your web because it was my aim to get caught. But daddy long legs I feel that I'm finally growing weary of waiting to be consumed by you. — Fiona Apple

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it. — Thomas A. Edison

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. — Czeslaw Milosz

When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. — Henryk Sienkiewicz

Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children...If a woman grows weary and, at last, dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die from bearing - she is there to do it. — Martin Luther

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary. — Barack Obama

The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.' — Confucius

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Are you looking for answers, to questions under the stars? If along the way you are growing weary, You can rest with me until a brighter day It's okay — Dave Matthews

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below? — George Sand

I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another. — Sir John Vanbrugh

The wordwas born in the blood,grew in the dark body, beating,and took flight through the lips and the mouth.Farther away and nearerstill, still it camefrom dead fathers and from wondering races,from lands which had turned to stone,lands weary of their poor tribes,for when grief took to the roadsthe people set out and arrivedand married new land and waterto grow their words again.And so this is the inheritance;this is the wavelength which connects uswith dead men and the dawningof new beings not yet come to light. — Pablo Neruda

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument. — Clifford Irving

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

In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.' — Charles Spurgeon

My friends: let us have faith in each other. Let us not grow weary. — Hillary Clinton

The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair. — Bertrand Russell

We who are crushed to earth with heavy chains, who travel a weary, rugged, thorny road, groping through midnight darkness on earth, earn our right to enjoy the sunshine in the great hereafter. At the grave, at least, we should be permitted to lay our burdens down, that a new world, a world of brightness, may open to us. The light that is denied us here should grow into a flood of effulgence beyond the dark, mysterious shadows of death. — Elizabeth Keckley

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent. — Martin Luther

Thou silent power, whose welcome sway charms every anxious thought away; in whose divine oblivion drown'd, sore pain and weary toil grow mild, love is with kinder looks beguiled, and Grief forgets her fondly cherish'd wound; oh, whither hast thou flown, indulgent god? God of kind shadows and of healing dews, whom dost thou touch with thy Lethaean rod? Around whose temples now thy opiate airs diffuse? — Mark Akenside

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally. — Michael Cunningham

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