Quotes About Exhaustion

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.

I don't know how it is in other industries, but as far as our industry is concerned, everybody takes their energy from the director. I myself was very exhausted, but I was acting as if I was full of energy and was pumping it into the whole team.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

One time, I fought 90 fights in 90 days in 90 different places around the world. I didn't even know who I was: about 45 or 50 in, they just kept pushing me, and that's when I really get into a lot of trouble.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

I travel 300 days a year which is tough. Sometimes we're up at 4 A.M. for a flight.

Everybody's probably had the flu before, so you kind of know it takes a couple of days to get your energy back, especially when you're playing sports.

With 'The Big Breakfast', the only way I can describe it is you spend your life jet-lagged, because of the hours. It's so strange, it's like you're a foot behind yourself. Even when you were there, nothing seemed real.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Frankly, I've had it with this show-business stuff. But I love 'Gunsmoke' and I love the guys I work with.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

I'm an insomniac. Ambien is my best friend.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

Living out a story eight times a week is difficult and draining emotionally but very fulfilling.

I don't know. I know nothing. I am very tired.

It was time to lie down and die.

A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest. But you have to get back to it. You have to pick up the threads, revive your enthusiasm, recapture the mood.

Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

Die Erklärung wird mir auch deshalb schwer werden, weil ich hier alles in sovielen Tagen und Nächten durchdacht und durchgraben habe, daß selbst mich jetzt der Anblick schon verwirrt.

Isso de acordar cedo", pensou, "deixa a pessoa completamente idiotizada. O homem precisa do seu sono.

Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.

I did eight months of training for 'Wimbledon,' and then, by the time I finished the movie another four months later, I was like, 'That's me. I'm done with tennis.'