Restless
When you can’t switch off
Restless, and you can’t say why. Lines from people who noticed the same thing, each checked against the original text.
“…they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”
Blaise PascalPensées, §II, no. 139
For when you can’t switch off and can’t say why.
What it means →“…I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”
Muriel Strode“Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers”, The Open Court, August 1903
For when the usual path has stopped feeling like yours.
What it means →“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.”
Michel de MontaigneEssays, Book I, ch. 38, “Of Solitude”
For when you’re everywhere except with yourself.
What it means →“You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.”
SenecaLetters to Lucilius, no. 28, §1–2
For when you want to be anywhere but here.
What it means →
Heavier than a line can hold? Talk is a quieter room.