“One becomes weary only of what is new.”
“Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.”
“A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.”
“Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.”
“He tried not to think what he knew--that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness and tiredness, until at last it is over and nothing has changed except for new weariness and new hatreds.”
“There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.”