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Quotes About Weariness

She tried to keep a cute little smile on her face but her face was too tired to be bothered.
~ Raymond Chandler
Garraty watched apathetically and thought, even the horror wears thin. There's a surfeit even of death.
~ Richard Bachman
Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. 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
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
Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.
~ K?b? Abe
Threadbare, ravaged by love – as who amongst us is not.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
~ Milan Kundera
Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying.
~ Drake
I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
~ Walter de La Mare
I got tired, I told him. Not worn out, but worn through. Like one of those wives who wakes up one morning and says I can't bake any more bread.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
This world, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores.
~ Morrissey
The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight
~ Sherryl Jordan, Winter of Fire
Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue.
~ Adi Da
There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.
~ Christopher Pike, Sati
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Eventually we all get tired of any and everything!
~ honeya
I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say
~ Albert Camus
He hated winter. The same gray sky lay on the ground, day after day, gray as industrial smoke, and in the sky the ground floated like a street that's been salted, and his closets were cold, holes wore through his pockets, and he was lonely, indoors and out, with a loneliness like the loneliness of overshoes or someone else's cough.
~ William H. Gass
All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.
~ William Lavender
Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
~ David Foster Wallace
He was travel stained, unkempt, and very tired, but his soul was at peace.
~ David Lindsay
David Foster Wallace: It just makes me a person that's really exhausted a couple other ways to live, you know? And really taken them, taken them to their conclusion. Which for me was a pink room, with no furniture and a drain in the center of the floor.
~ David Lipsky
If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.
~ Frank Laubach