Quotes About Exhaustion

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.

Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.

I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

My schedule fills up so ridiculously hard that you see me fighting and I take a loss or you see me fighting and I look terrible, but you have to go back and if you could see the schedule that I'm on you'd say, this is crazy. There's nobody who should be fighting on this kind of schedule.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.

During finals week, I don't get a lot of sleep, and I tell myself, 'I can't do this anymore.'

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'

I miss 'EastEnders.' I loved it. But I was exhausted when I left. They asked me to go back recently - they've asked a few times. I am tempted! But my husband Scott says you have to really think about it. Because, towards the end, I was so exhausted and not sleeping at night. I'm not quite ready for it.

You can find me sleeping on the floor at Terminal B at the Atlanta airport any time.

Al contrario, el esfuerzo físico la llenaba de energía, el agotamiento se convertía en vivacidad y gracia, los días eran largos, lentísimos, y el mundo (percibido como un naufragio interminable) le mostraba su cara más vivaz y la hacía tomar conciencia que la suya, naturalmente, también lo era.

Are you sick to sleep this much?" "It's easier than being awake.

She could weep no tears, for all hers had been spent.

She was too exhausted to live.

I have heard that you should not do bed business after too much hard work, Snow Flower told me, but I don't believe that my mother-in-law has heard that. She looked exhausted. I felt the same way after visiting my husband's home-from the nonstop labor, from being polite, and from always being watched. This is the one rule my mother-in-law doesn't respect either, I commiserated. Haven't they heard an exhausted well yields no water?

You can't squeeze blood from a stone. You can try, but you do all the bleeding.

She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own amazement felt his eyes fill with tears.

He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.