Quotes About Exhaustion

He hath eaten me out of house and home.

I am almost out at heels.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

stressed and/or tired to do anything more than sprawl on the couch

Estas mañanas se repetían cada semana, pero yo no me rendía y seguía quedándome en la cama los domingos. Quería ganar aunque solo fuera un minuto más de sueño. «Un poquito más. Ya casi me he deshecho del cansancio»,

For pacing, I need to envision my target or risk the wrong rhythm. I may start too quickly and exhaust my back and arms, which will inevitably lead to a bad attitude. Or I may proceed too slowly, which, with the sun beating down upon me, will drain my energy and spirit.

There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.

Father, I have wind. This activity centre leaves me jaded. I am colicky.

Decision fatigue depletes one's willpower.

My tongue tasted like a gladiator's jockstrap [Marcus Corvinus after a night out]

I'm burning out, John. Seriously. I don't know if I'm up for this. I feel stretched out, like too little butter scraped over too much waffle. And then it all falls down into one of the waffle holes and there's none left for the rest of the waffle and you sort of have to tilt it to make it run out.

I tried to collect myself. Tired. Tired like a zombie. An overworked zombie, one who got hired as a salaried assistant manager at a zombie video store, only to find out "salaried" just means he doesn't get paid for overtime

You'll know you've officially become sleep deprived when you have the unique feeling of being drunk, high, and on a psychiatric hold all at the same time. Some

Since any muscle cell will eventually reach a state of exhaustion—a depletion of available ATP—if it is kept constantly firing and working, one of the primary tasks of neuromuscular coordination is to maintain this overall tension set without exhausting any one cell. This is accomplished by a firing pattern called asynchronous stimulation, which alternates the working tonus contraction from motor unit to motor unit, so that some are always engaged while others are resting.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Tengo un cansancio infinito y, al tiempo, ninguno. Podría dormir diez días seguidos y no dormir en lo que me queda de vida. Podría quedarme dormido en esta mesa y permanecer insomne días enteros, tumbado en mi litera. Podría soñar despierto e imaginar la realidad como un sueño.

shook. I was used to getting a bad night's sleep, not to getting no sleep. I sat, ate, tried to hold myself together.

that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are.

The word "depressed" is spoken phonetically as "deep rest". We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound, and very misunderstood, state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.

Thus ended the Iran-Iraq War, one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the 20th century. After eight years of bitter fighting, untold casualties, and immeasurable suffering and dislocation, the two combatants were forced, out of sheer exhaustion and debilitation, to settle for the status quo ante existing in September 1980. Yet there was little doubt that neither of them viewed the ceasefire as the end of the conflict.

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modelling self-destructive behaviour, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.