Famous quotes containing the word weary:
“What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
“So wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness from the peculiar state of his disposition; and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand causes for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient to amuse him.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
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