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Quotes About Exhaustion

Dotar la vida de significado requiere energía y, en aquel momento, estaba falto de ella.
~ Paul Bowles
Travel is not a vacation, and it is often the opposite of a rest.
~ Paul Theroux
If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
~ Paulo Coelho
You may be mentally exhausted, convinced that your nonexistent problems—problems you know are nonexistent—are draining you of all your energy.
~ Paulo Coelho
She is tired to the heart," Ying muttered. "She is tired because in this great house all feed on her, like suckling children.
~ Pearl S. Buck
You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.
~ Rachel Caine, Bite Club
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
~ Emile M. Cioran
It's not enough to be sick and tired of something. You've got to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
~ Unknown
I feel less and less up to the requirements of my life
~ Daphne Merkin
I can barely feel my arms now, and my shoulders are sore, but I take deep breaths and keep going. Every few seconds I alternate hands and lick them. Hand job is such a misnomer for this full-body routine. It's like I'm a one-man band.
~ Daria Snadowsky
Al cabo de poco tiempo, a Bill comenzaron a agotársele los consejos y el whisky, así que yo me levanté para irme.
~ Unknown
First of all: I am tired. I am true of heart! And Also: You are tired. You are true of heart!
~ Dave Eggers
The cognitive scientists have now proven the reality of "decision fatigue"—that every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.
~ David Allen
You cannot get off the treadmill simply by running faster. All you can do by that mechanism is temporarily pass others, until they respond by running faster too, with the long-term consequence of having the whole field increase their speed just to stand still. The victor in such a race is not the runner, but the treadmill.
~ Unknown
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
~ David Foster Wallace
Like many Americans of his generation in this awkwardest of post-Imperial decades, an age suspended between exhaustion and replenishment, between input too ordinary to process and input too intense to bear, Sternberg is deeply ambivalent about being embodied; an informing fear that, were he really just an organism, he'd be nothing more than an ism of his organs.
~ David Foster Wallace
El odio que se siente por el trabajo al final del día no es más que una parte del trabajo
~ David Foster Wallace
Die Integrität meines Schlafs ist für alle Zeit kompromittiert, Sir.
~ David Foster Wallace
The More I Rest The More I Go In VAIN
~ William Shakespeare
one of the most unendurable aspects of such an interlude was the inability to sleep (...) the disruption of normal sleep patterns is a notoriously devastating feature of depression (...). It had become clear that I would never be granted even a few minutes' relief from my full-time exhaustion.
~ William Styron
I'm bored with it all. - Last Words
~ Winston Churchill
No war is so sanguinary as the war of exhaustion.
~ Winston S. Churchill
It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Stupid. He was stupid. He was tired of being stupid.
~ Cinda Williams Chima