Quotes About Exhaustion

Karen Hansen Clement sank deep in melancholy. She heard till she could hear no more. She saw until she could see no more. She was exhausted and confused, and the will to go on was being drained from her blood. Then, as so often happens when one reaches the end of the line, there was a turning upward and she emerged into the light. It

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets.

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

If I have to look through one more of these, I'm throwing myself off that balcony," he moaned. "Let me know if you need help," Jericho said.

I discovered a new emotion, bubbling up from underneath my fear: anger. I was getting very tired of it all. Very tired.

Luke stood up, assessed the water tank next to the tub, and shook his head in good-natured amazement. "What a contraption. Makes a man wonder what they'll invent next, doesn't it?" "I wouldn't know," Charity answered, exasperated and bone weary. "I'm not a man." He laughed. "No, indeed, Mrs. Shardlow, you are pure woman and that is a fact.

Yes, after all, in spite of one's exhaustion, in spite of one's agony, one felt one's spirits rise. Comfort and misery are relative things.

At 6 a.m., it's already 89º. Soon it'll be too hot for any gyrating of the larynx. Too hot to cry, too hot to fly. When all the world lies down at noon, you better get your partying in at dawn.

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.

I think it's the society that drains us out, and we are in a society where we are driven by money.

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.

Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion, and the final emergence into the light - only those who have experienced it can understand that.

Non è un problema di fatica, di paura della fatica, di rammollimento. Ve lo ripeto: per Monsieur Bertin quella fatica era un piacere. Aveva bisogno di sentirsi stanco, di quel tour de force lo rendeva grande, e sicuro di sé.

He felt weary. Life was a battle against wear; the wear of machinery and the wear of the soul. Oil. Grease. Wear.

These men were like leeches; they sucked away at the goodness of a woman's heart until it was dry and all her love had been used" (pg.46)

She slid a little until she was sagging against the open doorframe

Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!

and wished with all her heart that she wasn't so tired, wished that a broken wrist would radiate violent pain instead of this strange numbing ache that was exhausting her by its subtlety and consistency.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

What fresh hell is this?