Quotes About Exhaustion

Maybe you don't need beauty sleep, but some of us aren't so lucky.

Ernie Pyle, who was with them as usual, wrote: "They were dead weary, as a person could tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies spoke their inhuman exhaustion…. They were young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion made them look middle-aged." A sergeant wrote to his family in Iowa: "It'll soon be five months that a pup tent has been our home. Five months since I've even so much as sat at a table while eating.

I had never realized before just how tiring and dehydrating long exposure to the wind can be, but this made me feel closer to nature.

Rock stars did not invent burning out. They just do it louder.

So now we enter the Death March Phase of the project. Customers are angry. Stakeholders are angry. The pressure mounts. Overtime soars. People quit. It's hell.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

the Creator must have been tired when it came time to make men;

Women do not become exhausted," Haman said, "they only exhaust others.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich will make them rich. In most cases it doesn't. It only makes them more tired. They call it 'Keeping up with the Joneses.' And if you notice, the Joneses are exhausted.

And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now

In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one.

Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

One reason I've hung on to book selling is that it's progressive—the opposite of writing, pretty much. Eventually all novelists, if they persist too long, get worse. No reason to name names, since no one is spared. Writing great fiction involves some combination of energy and imagination that cannot be energized or realized forever. Strong talents can simply exhaust their gift, and they do.

I'm tired of justice, ain't you?

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

I hate being awake at three in the morning. It is the godforsaken heart of darkness when the body runs slow, and the brain runs slower, and all you want to do is sleep. But I had promises to keep, and miles to go before I could sleep. Or at least a couple of miracles to perform before I could go to bed.

Había pasado quince horas seguidas hablando y no podía pronunciar una palabra más.

Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.

My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.

I can't face the idea of riding home on a busful of sweaty, smiling teeth sucking up my oxygen.

Now you are burnt-out husks, your spirits haggard, sere, always breeding over your wanderings long and hard, your hearts never lifting with any joy - you've suffered far too much.

She got too tired and went to sleep. Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.