“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
Source: I Capture the Castle
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English novelist and playwright 1896–1990Related quotes
“Restlessness is my nemesis/ It's hard to just chill and sit still”
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“Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea,
Still should I love thee, knowing thee for such.”
Life and Death of Jason, Book ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
In his letter to Theo, from The Hague, 21 July 1882, http://www.vggallery.com/letters/245_V-T_218.pdf
1880s, 1882
Context: What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person — somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then — even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.
That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
“Though my body gets older, I still commune with the child inside.”
Instagram social media post by the author on (6 November 2017).
“I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.”
Source: Black Coffee Blues
“I am well protected
Too locked up
Inside myself
To get free”