Literary notes about unquiet (AI summary)
The term "unquiet" is frequently employed in literature to evoke a sense of inner or outer unrest, whether it be the turbulence of the human mind or the disturbance in nature. It often characterizes a state of mental agitation or emotional disquiet, as seen in descriptions of irritable moods and restless hearts ([1], [2], [3], [4]), yet it also extends to the physical realm, depicting churning waters, turbulent weather, or even tumultuous seasons ([5], [6], [7]). In some works the word deepens the portrayal of spectral or moral disarray, imbuing ghostly apparitions or the spirit of an age with a sense of relentless disturbance ([8], [9], [10]). Whether applied to the inner workings of conscience or to animate the natural world, "unquiet" conveys an ever-present tension and a departure from tranquility ([11], [12], [13]).
- He was in an unquiet, irritable frame of mind, which was likely to exhibit itself on the smallest provocation.
— from The Tin Box, and What it Contained by Alger, Horatio, Jr. - Late home, and what with business and my boy’s roguery my mind being unquiet, I went to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys - One parting, but ten thousand regrets: As I take my seat, my heart is unquiet.
— from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems - My soul has been spoiled by the world, my imagination is unquiet, my heart insatiate.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov - A storm, unusual at this mild period of the year, stirred up the unquiet waters of the Little Belt.
— from The Childhood of King Erik Menved: An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann - He looked down into the low unquiet shrubbery, and up into the tall primeval trees, and up higher at the rustling heaven, and into the crimson moon.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe - And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves, Are shaken with earth's old and weary cry.
— from Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats - Mrs. Wilcox, that unquiet yet kindly ghost, must be left to her own wrong.
— from Howards End by E. M. Forster - —Seneca, Ep., 106.] ‘tis a feverish excess of the mind; a tempestuous and unquiet instrument.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne - But to me absence is an unquiet remembrance of what I once loved, which continually torments me.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard and Héloïse - As the love of God makes us quiet, easy, peaceable, and benevolent; so the love of ourselves makes us unquiet, turbulent, and ill-natured.
— from True Christianity A Treatise on Sincere Repentence, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc. by Johann Arndt - Thou art the true peace of the heart, Thou alone its rest; apart from Thee all things are hard and unquiet.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas - All things therefore are to be committed to Me; watch thou thyself in godly peace, and leave him who is unquiet to be unquiet as he will.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas
