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Quotes About Exhaustion

Overworked, as usual. It happens to those who are particularly good at their jobs." She handed Eve a cup of tea in one of the pretty china cups.
~ J.D. Robb
The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard. --Disgrace
~ J.M. Coetzee
Never is he going to be his old self again. Never is he going to have his old resilience. Whatever inside him was given the task of mending the organism after it was so terribly assaulted, first on the road, then in the operating theatre, has grown too tired of the job, too overburdened. And the same holds for the rest of the team, the lungs, the heart, the muscles, the brain. They did for him what they could as long as they could; now they want to rest.
~ J.M. Coetzee
As V arrived back at the mansion with the King, he'd really just plain fucking had it with everyone. And that included himself. But
~ J.R. Ward
Jesus fucking Christ!" Wrath bit out. "Can we get a break around here?
~ J.R. Ward
Christ, it was like putting your face in a chum bucket and inhaling like the world were about to run out of oxygen.
~ J.R. Ward
You've been tired for centuries, Phury. It's time to let go of me. Don't think I can.
~ J.R.Ward
If I dreamed, no traces remained in my memory; I simply left the world and life for complete exhausted oblivion.
~ Jack Finney
I didn't bring my peremptory tone to bear in regard to what you'd just said about the unnecessariness of sleep but only, only , mind you, because of the fact that I absolutely, simply, purely and without any whatevers have to sleep now, I mean, man, my eyes are closing, they're redhot, sore, tired, beat...
~ Jack Kerouac
A little weariness'll change a lot of things.
~ Jack Kerouac
A tired life breeds tired decisions, sometimes none at all.
~ Jack Ketchum
There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.
~ Jack London
With the last remnant of his strength
~ Jack London
With the combination of spending a fair amount of time on planes, having twins that go to elementary school, and generally living a lifestyle that is pretty high-stress, I have been known to run myself down quite easily, so I am pretty much a petri dish for germs, colds, and flus.
~ Amanda de Cadenet
A typical day for me on tour is a marathon - it's like five days rolled into one.
~ Dierks Bentley
I think everybody in Ukraine is so tired about Burisma. We have our own country. We have our independence, we have our problems and questions.
~ Volodymyr Zelensky
I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.
~ April Winchell
I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.
~ Kate Moss
In hindsight, my darkest time came when I was an idol trainee. My future was uncertain and I always had to ask myself, 'Will I be able to debut?' It was physically and mentally exhausting sometimes.
~ Nayeon
Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
When the soldiers stand leaning on their spears, they are faint from want of food.
~ Sun Tzu
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
~ Homer
Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
My mind is done for the night, shorted out; there's nothing left but a dial tone.
~ Tana French