Quotes About Exhaustion

Sometimes she exhausted herself.

It was like someone had cheerfully suggested she run a marathon when she'd just dragged herself out of bed after suffering from the flu.

Some days she slouched for endless hours on the sofa, yawning hugely, like someone suffering from terrible jet lag.

It is just too much effort to be funny and entertaining and loving. It is just too much effort to talk, really.

I search, but never find. Hurt, but never cry. I work and forever tired.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

Even when you win the rat race , you're still a rat .

It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion that leads anywhere.

Men don't know, she thinks, they don't know how having a baby makes you protective of your skin, your body, your space. When you spend all day giving yourself to a baby in every way that it's possible to give yourself to another human being, the last thing you want at the end of the day is a grown man wanting you to give him things too.

Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

You live such a weird life while you're out on the tour. You're in a van or an airplane more than you are anything else.

I can't cut off an ear everyday. Do the Van Gogh here and the Mozart there. Anyway it's exhausting enough always having to check up on what one is really doing!.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.

I'm done with Vegas. I hate Vegas.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

I think there's an inevitable fact that I somehow absorb part of what I'm doing, because that's what you're constantly thinking about, and that's what's in your veins, and that's what you get up at 4:30 in the morning for and fall into bed after.

To be honest, I was on the verge of thinking I didn't even want to be a film-maker, just because making 'Ratcatcher' had been so tough. Afterwards, I was just ill. Knackered.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

Cody finally came out and sat next to me, and the two of us waited in silent camaraderie and watched as Rita and Astor changed shoes, shirts, shorts, hair scrunchies, and hats, fighting every step of the way. By the time they were finally ready, I was so exhausted just from watching them that I wasn't sure I could lift a paintbrush. But somehow, we all got into the car, and I drove us over to the new house.