Quotes About Exhaustion

It has to do instead with the presentiment men have at every moment of their lives, a foreboding adamantly hushed and hidden—that left to their own devices, in the dull, quiet company of passing time, they would atrophy faster. As though they'd been designed for a brief spurt of intensity, a high-stakes race, a triumph and, immediately afterward, exhaustion

Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means 'the dropping of petals'. The world has dropped its petals.

Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages. Just like the cells of the body, its tiniest components, the senses, succumb to apoptosis. Apoptosis is natural death, brought about by the tiredness and exhaustion of matter. In Greek this word means "the dropping of petals." The world has dropped its petals.

She was all of a muck of sweat.

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada día, cuando termina el sueño, allí, donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas...

y vuelta y vuelta a tanta terca tuerca para entregarse entero o de tres cuartos harto ya de mitades y de cuartos al entrevero exhausto de los lechos deshechos o darse noche y día sin descanso contra todos los nervios del misterio del más allá de acá

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.

Como ves, yo puedo ir y venir del fondo del mar a tierra firme cuando quiera, lo que me permite observar y comparar ambos modos de vida, y te aseguro que vuestra vida en tierra firme es agobiante. Hay demasiadas críticas de unos hacia otros. Las conversaciones de la gente que vive en tierra consisten o bien en hablar mal de los demás, o bien en hacer propaganda de las bondades de uno mismo. Acaba uno harto.

If I am devoted solely to the cause of humanity, I will soon be exhausted and come to the point where my love will waver and stumble.

Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the bucket--to be so totally insignificant that no one remembers you even if they think of those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until you are used up and exhausted--not seeking to be ministered to, but to minister?

I'd been on the road for twenty-five years, pretty much. I was like a mouse on a wheel: album, tour, album, tour, album, tour, album, tour.

She meant that her soul was tired, her heart was tired, her whole being was tired...

Sentimentul este ceva ce se poate pierde ca un ceas, epuiza încet ca un cont în banc? ÅŸi reg?si ca o p?l?rie.

it is impossible to come to a sensible conclusion about anything when one is very tired

Right now, our model is the culture of exhaustion. We need to be exhausted before we can fall asleep, so we keep pushing and pushing ourselves. But if a society can't rest, how can it sleep?

I didn't want my exhaustion to burn through my empathy. How terrifying was this loss of electric power superimposed on the powerlessness of aging and disability? I could not fathom it and tried not to be judgmental about my parents' reactions. How did it feel not seeing well to begin with and then functioning by flashlight? How did it feel to depend on others for your heat, water, and food?

Burnout is nothing more than your body reaching the end of its physical, emotional, and mental resources.

How was he ever going to get any rest if his dreams were going to be this tiring?

She was weary and disappointed with all of everything.

Estaba harta de ser tan única.

She felt flat and scraped as an old hide. Dry as paper written on both sides.

Tenía la cabeza y el corazón cansados. Y aún así, el sueño no venía.

My mind was learning to work in different ways, becoming stronger. It felt the same way your body feels after a day of splitting wood, or swimming, or sex. You feel exhausted, languorous, and almost godlike. I could feel my mind starting to awaken.

Estaba tan cansado que me habría dormido encima de un caballo al galope. Hasta me habría dormido debajo de un caballo al galope.