Quotes About Exhaustion

To worry is to wear yourself out.

A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.

Power wears out those who don't have it

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

I cannot account for this numbness of feeling that weighs me down and makes me helpless," he wrote sadly to Edward. "I think without a relief from all work, without a long and perfect holiday, I will never rise.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Politics makes me sick.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

rubbed his weary eyes

We were too sick of the case to talk about it anymore but too obsessed with it to talk about anything else.

All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.

But I'd come to a time when I couldn't deal with these broken things anymore. There were too many of them. I couldn't fix them. I didn't have the strength. I couldn't hold them in my mind. I didn't even want to know about them.

Lev Beniov:] "The imminence of death did not frighten me as much as it should have. I had been too afraid for too long; I was too exhausted, too hungry, too feel anything with proper intensity. But if my fear had diminished, it was not because my courage had increased. My body was so weak, so spent, that my legs trembled from the effort of standing upright. I could summon no great concern for anything, including the fate of Lev Beniov.

Oh, how sweet it is to be spent and worn out for God!

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

David Foster Wallace: It just makes me a person that's really exhausted a couple other ways to live, you know? And really taken them, taken them to their conclusion. Which for me was a pink room, with no furniture and a drain in the center of the floor.

You're exhausted in the faith because you're looking at you. The more you look at yourself and the less you look at God, the more you get frustrated at yourself.

I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

That's how it is sometimes--God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it.

God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.