Quotes About Exhaustion

Ministry burnout is a real problem because it's never-ending.

After 'Kelis Was Here,' I was done. I was like, 'I will never put out another record again; I hate this business; I hate all these people.' I was in this race that I didn't even realise that I was in.

People don't realise how much energy it takes to sing and hit all those high notes - but I always feel like I've done a marathon.

To play the role of a sports champion, I first needed to break my body and become supremely fit to convincingly look like a college athlete. Along with acing sporting disciplines, I also had to balance the emotional graph and light heartedness of a college drama while competing in varying sport! Combining the two drained a lot out of me.

Grief is exhausting.

The last two years, ever since I became a Lok Sabhha member, I've been working round the clock. It's grueling work through the day.

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Why would you have a seven-hour show? The fans are going to be so tired halfway through the show.

Relinquishing my hopes of getting a nap

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

He had not slept the night before except to doze kneeling next to Derek, and he had worked hard all day on the raft getting it ready, and when the sun went down and the darkness caught him he could not believe how much he wanted to sleep.

Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.

Moi, je ne m'exprime jamais comme les autres !... Je ne fais rien comme les autres!... Mais j'en suis bien fatigué !... bien fatigué !...

Prot: I'm not tired. Brewer: I am. Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?

It was so hot we spent our waking hours dozing and our sleeping hours lying awake, trying to sleep.

Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the spending of four years on dramatic criticism. I have sworn an oath to endure no more of it. Never again will I cross the threshold of a theatre. The subject is exhausted; and so am I. I am off duty forever, and am going to sleep.

I want to be all used up when I die.

It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I married, was in 'Abba,' had my children, divorced, all in ten years. I wonder how I managed it, but I was young.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

My jet lag is getting a bit ridiculous. But, you know, it's first-world problems. It's a wonderful problem, 'Oh I have to travel around the world; how awful.'

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.