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Quotes About Weariness

The prince's weary features looked like parchment pulled over bone;
~ Tad Williams
The world's decay where the wind's hands have passed, And my head, worn out with love, at rest In my hands, and my hands full of dust.
~ Ted Hughes
Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.
~ Julian Barnes
The stone bench is gray. The grass is gray. My life is dirty gray
~ Julie Anne Peters
Sólo alcanzaba a advertir la casa triste, que Rema estaba como cansada, que apenas llovía y las cosas tenían, sin embargo, algo de húmedo y abandonado
~ Julio Cortazar
Cómo cansa ser todo el tiempo uno mismo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Casi siempre tuve que abrir los ojos a la ceniza de un amanecer, buscar una bata fría y ver llegar la fatiga anterior a todo esfuerzo, el sabor a pizarra de un día interminable. No sé vivir sin cansancio, sin dormir; no sé por qué la noche odia mi sueño y lo combate, murciélagos afrontados sobre mi cuerpo desnudo.
~ Julio Cortazar
I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards
~ Julius Lester
boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.
~ Jung Chang
Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.
~ Justin Cronin
A man would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft, over and over.
~ Francis Bacon
Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
~ French proverb
But he was fatigued. Worn out like an old banner allowed to flap in the wind through too many rainstorms.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I am growing so very tired.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Era sfinito, eppure non sentiva alcun desiderio di andare a casa. Ogni sera era la stessa cosa. Tornare a casa significava affrontare un oceano di solitudine.
~ Henning Mankell
call. I spent the next few hours playing poker with myself. It's the saddest expression of loneliness I know. I never feel more overwhelmed by weariness and unhappiness than when I'm trying to win money off myself. There is no deeper form of isolation.
~ Henning Mankell
but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise. Mrs
~ Henry Fielding
And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.
~ Joe Sacco
I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.
~ Thomas Muster
Traveling the road can be quite tiresome.
~ Stephen Hough
I get tired of the traveling.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
I get more tired by travelling than anything.
~ Manolo Blahnik
I'm sick of the treadmill.
~ Andrea Martin
I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.
~ Philip K. Dick