Quotes About Exhaustion

Lady Dedlock is always the same exhausted deity, surrounded by worshippers, and terribly liable to be bored to death, even while presiding at her own shrine.

You!' said the old man contemptuously. 'What do you know of the time when young men shut themselves up in those lonely rooms, and read and read, hour after hour, and night after night, till their reason wandered beneath their midnight studies; till their mental powers were exhausted; till morning's light brought no freshness or health to them; and they sank beneath the unnatural devotion of their youthful energies to their dry old books?

She has worn herself away by constant sharpening. She is all edge.

There was no speaking among the string of riders. The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent.

Reihm wasn't thrilled by the Moon walk that he and his colleagues had worked for years to make possible; he was thrilled by its being over

Verbs. All of them tiring.

the sense of being dehumanised, reduced to little more than an extension of your equipment and weaponry, the constant feeling of being used as an object, manipulated by blind, invisible hands, controlled by a force that was either malignant or stupid, the sense of being exhausted in a metaphorical and quite often literal darkness, of being exhausted, frightened, sick, sometimes so weary that you slept while on your feet like a horse. And ignorance, stupefying, brutalising ignorance.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Sleep was like a phantom I was too tired to chase.

Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine.

Sleep deprivation is my drug of choice.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

Exchanges like these with Cathy always exhausted him, partly because she was so tenacious, but mainly because she was right. It was a fact of life that those with the fattest wallets and the loudest voices always got more than they deserved

He felt so tired and angry. Maybe his anger was mostly caused by his exhaustion and lack of hope. And don't forget the fear, he told himself. Fear that the good causes never win—that they can only hold up evil for a while.

I could talk to friends who phoned to see how I was only for a few minutes. However pleased I was to hear from them, soon my voice went flat and I wanted to go back to sleep. It was beyond me how other people could talk so much.

We have information fatigue, anxiety, and glut. We

Perhaps the exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom, if you care to alter the proverb.

I am tired,, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.

Exhaustion usually feeds negative thinking.

O Jamesy let me up out of this pooh

It was lovely to be tired.

From Meade came promises to try, but also reports of supply difficulties, roads of bottomless mud, the exhaustion of his men, and a strong defensive perimeter at Williamsport established by Lee while his engineers worked feverishly to rebuild a pontoon bridge. Lincoln had heard it all before, and he must have sighed with exasperation.