Quotes About Exhaustion

Sleep was like sex. The less you had, the more you craved it, and Tracy Crosswhite hadn't had much of either lately. She stretched

Arguing leave the participants emotionally exhausted and mentally depressed.

And then, at last, the frenzy wore itself into staleness, and even the journalist had nothing left to say, but that too much had been said already.

Monday-morning faces: sagging, gaunt, braced, resigned.

Her insistence on the smooth passing of counterfeit social coin from hand to hand, while uncomfortable truths were ignored and denied, wore him out.

a kind of emotional exhaustion had set in.

To her own frustration, the exhausted Robin could not remember the name of the young girl who had written to Strike, asking for advice on cutting off her leg, but she thought it had been Kylie or something similar. Scrolling slowly down the most densely populated support site she had found, she kept an eye out for usernames that might in

I'm fine, for God's sake,' said Robin, now slightly exasperated. 'If I keeled over every time someone got stabbed in London I'd spend half my life unconscious.

He had almost fallen asleep on top of Elin last night, and counted it among the week's few small achievements that he had finished the job, at least.

Sometime, Mrs. Truitt, we work very hard at something, we exhaust ourselves to accomplish something which seems vital to us." He chose his words with care. "Our best hope for happiness. And sometimes we find that thing, only to find it has simply not been worth the effort.

I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil.

No. I've seen enough brains to last

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

He ran till he was blind with running, till he thought he had lived his entire life running, one foot pounding down in front of the other endlessly, till his bones were on fire with it, and every time either foot struck the ground his whole body cried out against the jolt. He set his teeth and ran on.

willpower weakens once it gets tired. Scientists call the condition 'ego depletion.

We make our worst decisions and our lowest choices when we're exhausted. So, don't allow yourself to get exhausted. Period.

to give you a second wind for a great evening. You'll beat the exhaustion most people feel after work, re-energize your willpower batteries so you improve your evening choices and even find your cravings for sugar in the nighttime are significantly lower.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

We talked the moon out of heavens before either of us grew tired.

I was tired of looking for sense where there wasn't any.

The four to six young aides usually slept in one room, often two to a bed, then worked long days in a single room with chairs crowded around small wooden tables. Washington typically kept a small office off to the side. During busy periods, the aides sometimes wrote and copied one hundred letters per day, an exhausting grind

I am so tired. It is so long. I want to see Hamilton.

One could now see in his face the subdued melancholy of a man who had sacrificed too much for work.

Desperately eager to please his parents, he had exhausted himself in trying to scrub sin from his soul.