Famous quotes containing the word weary:
“The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It had been a moving, tranquil apotheosis, immersed in the transfiguring sunset glow of decline and decay and extinction. An old family, already grown too weary and too noble for life and action, had reached the end of its history, and its last utterances were sounds of music: a few violin notes, full of the sad insight which is ripeness for death.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)
“The weary pilgrim to thy roof;
Where if, refreshd, he will away,
Hes fairly welcome; or if stay,
Far more; which he shall hearty find
Both from the master and the hind.”
—Thomas Carew (15891639)