Quotes About Exhaustion

He felt rather like someone lying in a bath after all the water has run out, witless, almost dead.

Oh god, success is so exhausting.

I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.

Probably jet lag.

There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..

Big dreams, are so damn tiring.

Realitatea faptului c? trebuia s? îmi pun nu una, ci DOUÄ' È™osete, È™i apoi DOI pantofi m? copleÈ™ea, È™i voiam s? m? întorc în pat.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

if you stop "thrashing your liver" into an early state of exhaustion, you will add many years to your life.

A complaint can be a point you reach when you can't take it, when you are "just done with this," the violence

I was profoundly shy growing up, and my sense of human sociality was of something from which I was barred: almost like a room with a locked door for which I did not have the key. Perhaps that was it: gender seemed like a key to a lock, which I did not have, or which I did not fit. Looking back, I think I decided to self-girl when I went to university, as I was exhausted by not fitting or not fitting in.

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.

It's been a long night. Aren't they all.

Why doesn't Sunday ever wait until I'm tired?

Anyway, it was an age of spiritual exhaustion—all the old dreams were dreamed out. I was angry; I burned like that furnace; reading more, sick with rage.

It's just been a long week, that's all. It's monday night, Jess. My point exactly.

Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

Any place in our lives and heart where we are exerting our will and ways over God's will and ways will inevitably drain us of energy and resources. Exertion=Exhaustion. On the other hand, death to self requires only that we lay down at the foot of the cross and give up the right to run our lives. We say with Christ, "Not my will but Yours be done Father." The Crucified life is the entrance into true rest. #ComeAndDie

We see how many tricks they try, how many pursuits they exhaust themselves with in order to secure the objects of their ambition or greed, while trying to avoid, on the other hand, poverty and humility.

tired and received a weak,

Western culture is in its twilight; there is a dark age ahead; and while college-humanities fads and 'secular-progressive values' have certainly done much damage, they are symptoms, not causes—fragments of junk sucked into a vacuum. The fundamental reason why so much of our culture is shit—either literally, like Signor Manzoni's masterwork, or figuratively—is exhaustion, cultural exhaustion.

The world's whole sap is sunk

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.