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Quotes About Exhaustion

It was hell to be so tired, and still care.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing anything. Sit down and wait sensibly. Earth, water, air, fire - you're running out of elements here!
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Patience and exhaustion turn out to have a lot in common.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, What? Or worse, feeling interrupted and tired, Wha—?
~ Lorrie Moore
I've been in love often enough to be completely exhausted by it, and not to know what it means any more. When you look back afterwards, you can always find another way of putting it. You say, I was obsessed, it was really lust, I was fooling myself, because after you've recovered from being in love, you always decide that that wasn't what it was.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Tired," said Jason. "S-L-E-E-P-Y. Tired.
~ Louis Sachar
Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake. But
~ Louis Sachar
So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something.
~ Louisa May Alcott
There is such fear and exhaustion in their eyes that Erich says to Roger Erdman one morning, I find it difficult to look at them. I agree, says Roger. Because it could be us on those hard benches. And that's what we're most afraid of - to look out there and see ourselves.
~ Rose Tremain
We prayed until our faith passed into an exhaustion that numbed us to sleep.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
Baloo made one effort to hurry, but had to sit down panting
~ Rudyard Kipling
When people lose control of their emotions, they tend to seek absolute satisfaction from the object of their fury. And since absolute satisfaction does not exist in this world, I knew she was going to rave on until she reached a state of exhaustion, and a certain queer sense of fulfillment.
~ Ry? Murakami
Since taking are of one small baby is the hardest job on earth, I am constantly late, as I am today.
~ Sally Koslow
I don't like any sport where you're already exhausted when you're done putting on the equipment.
~ Rob Lowe
It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.
~ George Saunders
I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet
~ Steve Valentine
Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.
~ Carol Anshaw
It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.
~ Mary Kay Ash
life. She was only a girl and exhausted from her journey, but she would do as she must in order to survive.
~ Alice Hoffman
No one realized that it was the inhuman and absurd discipline imposed on him at this boarding school, where he spent eight years of his life, that completely exhausted his physical and mental energies.
~ Alice Miller
Todo el mundo está cansado. Lo que pasa es que algunos aprenden a actuar como si no lo estuvieran.
~ Alice Munro
Can't you see I'm already half dead.
~ Alice Walker