Restless Nights Quotes:

Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T. S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.5, Faber & Faber

topic: Serious, Sawdust, Muttering, Restless Nights

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Sky, Evening, Spread, Sawdust, Muttering

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly.

- John Green

source: John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Love You, Night, Oysters, Sawdust, Muttering

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

- Lord Chesterfield

topic: Life, Success, Good Night, Indigestion, Rainy

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

- T. S. Eliot

topic: Talking, Rooms, Culture, Sawdust, Muttering

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

- Fran Lebowitz

source: Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

topic: Sweet, Art, Writing, Something Sweet, Inspirational Artist

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

- Amitabh Bachchan

source: The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

topic: Home, Butterfly, Night, Restless Nights, I Get Butterflies

You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.

- A.L. Kennedy

source: A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Original Bliss”, p.74, Random House

topic: Night, Bed, Looks, Restless Nights

Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle that they dog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.

- Izaak Walton

topic: Dog, Sleep, Night, Girdles, Restless Nights