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Quotes About Weariness

une dame a la langue fanée une dame longue plus longue que sa chaise longue et très âgée
~ Jacques Prévert
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
After that night, which was in late December, I was completely worn out. I did not walk as often, and when I walked did not see what was around me: though I looked up at the housefronts, at the sky, again and again I found myself watching the pavement that rolled out under my feet.
~ Lydia Davis
When he speaks at last, his voice is weary, and defeated. He doesn't know how to be angry with me, either. We are like damp wood that won't light.
~ Madeline Miller
Francis, however, was tired and bored. He kept yawning and wanted to retire to his chamber before the end of the meal.
~ John Guy
Es que a veces me pongo tan triste –dijo la señora Reilly–. La vida no es fácil. Además he trabajado muy duro. Ya estoy harta.
~ John Kennedy Toole
The tree was not only stripped by the cold season, it seemed weary with age, enfeebled, dry. So more the things remain the same, the more they change after all. Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence. Changed, I headed back though the mud. I was drenched; anybody could see it was time to come out of the rain.
~ John Knowles
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Im tired of pretending everything is okay. My tears are starting to show and my smile is fading away..
~ Unknown
Tired of being stepped on, tired of being unappreciated and so f*cking tired of being disrespected by everyone.
~ Unknown
Tired of being angry , tired of being fed up and disappointed,
~ Unknown
I know I'm not gunna want this down the road but idk what else to do. Just tired of being hurt.
~ Unknown
I'm not desperate, but I am tired of being alone.
~ Unknown
I can honestly say that I'm tired of being played.
~ Unknown
so I don't fucking kill myself of boredom
~ Madeline Miller
In the same month that she began Story of a Soul, Thérèse wrote to her sister Léonie, "this thought of the brevity of life gives me courage, it helps me bear the weariness of the road...the hour of rest is approaching
~ Unknown
Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.
~ John Owen
She was tired of being afraid, so impossibly weary of her own fears that a part of her wanted to sit on the quite beach forever. If she sat in the sand forever,she wouldn't have to face the troubles that often seemed to define her life. As a tear descended her cheek, she wiped it away, turning toward the sea.
~ John Shors
I'm gettin' tired way past where sleep rests me.
~ John Steinbeck
So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.
~ John Steinbeck
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.
~ John Steinbeck
Lanser had been in Belgium and France twenty years before and 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.
~ John Steinbeck
O]nly Colonel Lanser knew what war really is in the long run . . . and 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 a new weariness and new hatreds.
~ John Steinbeck