Quotes About Exhaustion

Sometimes a workweek will grind you into sand, pulverize you into particles.

Sometimes he tried to get a basketball game together, two-on-two, but after a while we just started playing three against him, and he still won, leaving us a sorry sight at the side of the court, bent over and dizzy, palms on our knees and reaching for imaginary asthma inhalers. Imaginary asthma inhalers created a placebo effect, which was better than nothing.

He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted—it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his fingers

He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted—it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his finge

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.

She did not want to move, or to speak. She wanted to rest, to lean, to dream. She felt very tired.

Immediately, Mrs. Ramsay seemed to fold herself together, one petal closed in another, and the whole fabric fell in exhaustion upon itself, so that she had only strength enough to move her finger, in exquisite abandonment to exhaustion, across the page of Grimm's fairy story, while there throbbed through her, like the pulse in a spring which has expanded to its full width and now gently ceases to beat, the rapture of successful creation.

Her baby wouldn't stop crying. She'd started fussing at the last station, when the Greyhound bus out of Bangor stopped in Portland to pick up more passengers. Now, at a little after 1 A.M., they were almost to the Boston terminal, and the two-plus hours of trying to soothe her infant daughter were, as her friends back in school would say, getting on her last nerve.

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

With heads thrown back, legs pumping out of sync, Louie and Lash drove for the tape. With just a few yards remaining, Lash began inching up, drawing even. The two runners, legs rubbery with exhaustion, flung themselves past the judges in a finish so close, Louie later said, "you couldn't put a hair between us.

She wonders if he is as exhausted by all the lying as she is.

la fuerza de voluntad, al igual que los músculos, se fatiga si se usa demasiado.

Excuse me while I yawn.

It's The Addie Show all over again. Every channel, every network.

in freezing weather. They were cold and exhausted; soon they would be starving.

There was no fatal illness, only the exhaustion of endless grieving.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

He had thrown every rock he could find and it was still not enough.

I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.

Lavorare stanca.

L'idea di passare un'altra notte bianca mi atterrì.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

With drooping heads and tremulous tails, they mashed their way through the thick mud, floundering and stumbling between whiles, as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints. As often as the driver rested them and brought them to a stand, with a wary "Wo-ho! so-ho-then!