Quotes About Exhaustion

I'm so sorry. I think I'm just tired." The socially accepted excuse for being mental.

Then he kept to the back streets, and found a place that did a very reasonable double sausage, egg, bacon and fried slice, in the hope that food could replace sleep.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I am too tired, even to be happy.

So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and a life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on.

This was why men exhausted her so. It was a wonder the world didn't collapse daily from the weight of men's egos, she thought.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

She thought that one of the hardest parts of marriage was being loving when both partners were exhausted or wounded at the same time. When you had the least strength, that's when you had to dig beyond your limits and grab whatever could be found and give it away.

As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.

too tired to run and too afraid to rest.

I followed shortly after, but even a long, hot shower didn't bring on the sleep I'd really hoped for. Quite simply, I had too much on my mind. So much that it raced from one problem to another, in a vicious cycle that had me tossing and turning in between small bouts of sleep with vivid, strange dreams. I awakened feeling more tired than I had when I'd gone to bed, and that was saying a lot given the day I'd had before.

I know, and I appreciate that," says Dinah, getting up to extract a container of yogurt from the fridge, which completes her improvised dinner—"but I have to say that I am really, really tired of having to ask you to do things.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.

I'm drowning--at home and at work. I want to give 100 percent on all fronts, but there are only so many 100 percents you can give before you realize there's nothing left.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

People can't get work done at work anymore. That turns life into work's leftovers. The doggie bag. What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

Y que la sospecha permanente a su vez no es tolerable, porque resulta extenuante observarse sin cesar a uno mismo y a los otros, sobre todo al otro, al más cercano, y comparar con los recuerdos que jamás son fiables.

You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.

She knew herself by heart too, and was sick of the old story.

It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless.

Sviatopolk tenía la impresión de que ya no podía seguir odiando, pues el odio que se había nutrido con él año tras año, impulsándolo hacia delante como un cruel jinete que hinca las espuelas en los flancos de su caballo, había acabado por agotarlo.