Andre Gide Quotes

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

I have been restless for as long as I can remember.

It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

Looking about me, listening and recalling what the day had been like, I suddenly felt a secret unease in my heart and raised my eyes to the sky, but even in the sky there seemed to be no tranquillity. Dotted with stars, it constantly quivered and danced and shivered.

A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

I can't live just being content. I can't have a routine. I can't be settled because then I just get really frustrated.

I'm not someone who feels settled.

I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

I am a restless person.

The more I get used to my life, the more restless I become.

I think I'm pretty calm. But I am very restless and fidgety.

I'm never comfortable.

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

All of them had a restlessness in common.

I don't know that I've ever been completely comfortable with anything.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

May we not look for Discontent, Mistrust, Disaffection to Government and frequent Insurrections?

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Terror is the order of the day.

I lived with uncertainty.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.