One more Unfortunate
Weary of breath.
Rashly importunate.
Gone to her death. [ Hood ]
Days of absence, sad and dreary;
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away. [ Rousseau ]
The heavy and the weary weight
Of all this unintelligible world. [ Wordsworth ]
There is a calm for those who weep,
A rest for weary pilgrims found,
They softly lie and sweetly sleep
Low in the ground. [ Montgomery ]
One golden day redeems a weary year. [ Celia Thaxter ]
O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Death is delightful. Death is dawn -
The waking from a weary night
Of fevers unto truth and light. [ Joaquin Miller ]
To the weary the bare ground is a bed. [ Curt ]
A witless heed (head) mak's weary feet. [ Scotch Proverb ]
The ox when he is weary, treads surest. [ Proverb ]
Lord, help me through this warld o' care,
I'm weary sick o't late and air;
Not but I hae a richer share
Than mony ithers;
But why should ae man better fare,
And a' men brithers? [ Burns ]
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find
That bliss which only centres in the mind. [ Goldsmith ]
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest. [ Seneca ]
So weary with disasters tugged with fortune.
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend, or be rid of it. [ William Shakespeare ]
But can the noble mind forever brood,
The willing victim of a weary mood,
On heartless cares that squander life away,
And cloud young Genius brightening into day? [ Campbell ]
Sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light;
A rosy garland, and a weary head. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]
An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity! [ William Shakespeare ]
Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest. [ William Watson ]
Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest.
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high.
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold,
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold. [ William Shakespeare ]
They talk of short-lived pleasures - be it so -
Pain dies as quickly; stern, hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign. [ Bryant ]
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary.
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary. [ Longfellow ]
He lives long that lives till all are weary of him. [ Proverb ]
Wit without judgment is a weary thing to the company. [ Proverb ]
Fortune is weary to carry one and the same man always. [ Proverb ]
How much one must have suffered to be weary even of hope! [ Pauline ]
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. [ Hood ]
The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour. [ Brillat-Savarin ]
It is with the mind that we amuse ourselves, but with the heart we never weary. [ A. Dumas pere ]
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! [ William Shakespeare ]
Every one is weary: the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One that is perfectly idle is perfectly weary too, and knows not what he would do or have. [ Proverb ]
Tell me, when shall these weary woes have end? or shall their ruthless torment never cease? [ Spenser ]
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. [ Rochefoucauld ]
I am young; I have passed but the half of the road of life, and, already weary, I turn and look back! [ A. de Musset ]
The reason why lovers never weary of each other's company is because they speak always of themselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves. [ Horace Greeley ]
In the silent night, weary mortals lull to rest their cares, and their hearts become forgetful of toil. [ Virgil ]
Night bringeth sleep, and spreadeth itself over the crowds of weary men, and giveth rest to the whole earth. [ Apollonius Rhodius ]
I have found the saying of the ancients true, that better is a bright comrade on a weary road than a horse-litter. [ Charles Reade ]
Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. [ Hosea Ballou ]
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years - the language of the soul, told through the eye. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]
A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! [ Sterne ]
They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose, - who have rather breathed than lived. [ Lord Clarendon ]
How beautiful it is for a man to die on the walls of Zion! to be called like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, to put his armor off, and rest in heaven. [ N. P. Willis ]
Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces. [ John Dryden ]
I fancy mankind may come in time to write all aphoristically, except in narration; grow weary of preparation and connection and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. [ Bible ]
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings. [ James Parton ]
Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor; and on they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at heart, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood. [ Rogers ]
Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]