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Quotes About Exhaustion

Oh, cold world -- I have grown so weary of you and all your horrible bathrooms.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We'd been fighting and crying, and we were weary in that way that only a couple whose marriage is collapsing can be weary. We had the eyes of refugees.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
What happened now? he would ask -- another man thoroughly exhausted by me.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It's only that I've waited so long to grow up, but now there's nothing worth growing up for," she said. "Just all this fighting, fighting, fighting, and working, working, working. It makes a person weary.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.
~ Elizabeth Peters
There is nothing more abominable than being in a state of bodily exhaustion and mental irritation; I was too lethargic to get up and seek some means of occupying my mind, but I was too uneasy to fall asleep.
~ Elizabeth Peters
I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
He had originally hoped to use this place only as a stopover to replenish their water and to obtain a few days' rest
~ Alfred Lansing
Their tongues were swollen with thirst
~ Alfred Lansing
They had had no sleep for almost eighty hours, and their bodies had been drained by exposure
~ Alfred Lansing
She said, "I am aweary, aweary,I would that I were dead!"
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Debating an ignorant tires me.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
I'm tired of the news. I'm tired of the way it makes things spectacular that aren't, and deals so simplistically with what's truly appalling.
~ Ali Smith
I can make no dent in anything. I have nothing left to break.
~ Ali Smith
I'm tired of the news...I'm tired of anger. I'm tired of the meanness. I'm tired of selfishness...I'm tired of lying governments. I'm tired of people not caring whether they're being lied to anymore. I'm tired of being made to feel this fearful.
~ Ali Smith
He was tired, he realized, emotionally and physically. He wanted to lie down and turn off the world and sleep for a week.
~ Allan Folsom
It would be some joke to win through all these perils, only to drop dead of exhaustion within sight of Haven.
~ Allison Croggon
I'm fine I said for the 2,467th time this semester. (I know. I was keeping count)
~ Ally Carter
Ahora sé cómo lucen las estrellas de verdad. Estoy harta de las imitaciones.
~ Ally Carter
Cuando empezaba a trabajar, ya estaba cansada, pero eso era una ventaja y no un inconveniente. La rutina de la casa, los niños, las reuniones de padres de alumnos, los disfraces de Navidad, de carnaval, de fin de curso, las citas con los tutores, el calendario de vacunaciones y todo lo demás, la agotaba de tal manera que los días laborables no se lo parecían tanto.
~ Almudena Grandes
Por qué inventar el infierno cuando existe el insomnio?
~ Amelie Nothomb
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
~ John Ruskin