Quotes About Exhaustion

I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle.

We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

A lot of people don't realize the toll put on activists. There's a very draining element to it.

Caring burns a lot of fuel - psychological and physical, too, if any lifting is involved. The energy tank is soon emptied, and the toll caring takes is well documented. It's called carer burn-out.

Travel takes a toll on you.

Being the one-woman label that I am takes a toll on you; you have to do everything.

Although he loved performing live, and was great at it - Jeff was as solid on stage, as he was in the studio - performing for two hours at a stretch really took a physical toll. It was very hard on him.

The business has taken a toll on me.

Rebuff and rejection, and I know I was far too tired to deal with him without making things worse.

I'm too tired to cope with a teenager. I thought the terrible twos were supposed to be the worst age and now I'm discovering it's sixteen.

I don't want to understand you,' I say tiredly. 'I wish you would not speak at all.

Many people turn away from Me when they are exhausted. They associate Me with duty and diligence, so they try to hide from My Presence when they need a break from work. How this saddens Me! As I spoke through My prophet Isaiah: In returning to Me and resting in Me you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength.

She was tired of cleaning up after everyone even though she wanted to because that would mean they had a better time.

She said at the national ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Association) conference that their AD/HD symptoms often only show up at home after an exhausting effort to "hold it together all day.

They don't know how hard they are working or how much of their energy is going into just surviving. They don't know that living is not supposed to be that hard. Too often, like the frog, by the time they discover this is not the way it's supposed to be they're already depleted, depressed, or overwhelmed.

My words dried up. I'd already used more than my daily quota, and the dull ache in my head was a warning not to overdo it. I shrugged.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

Counting sheep no longer works. The day comes crashing down on you and you can't escape it. You go home, have two shots of Jack, look through the bills, fix yourself a TV dinner, watch the Lakers lose another one, take a bath, think briefly of cutting your wrists knowing you don't have the guts to do it, and you go to bed. So much for the sheep.

sweat streaming killing hard in over kill i wake up screaming there's nothing to be done but go at it again

They gave me killer pills that knocked me on my ass for a few hours at least so I wouldn't have to hear the godawful screaming. I'm exhausted and my blood boils and there's nothing I can do. There was another life that seems so long ago and I try to reconstruct images, events, people, all just dreams tethered to the knife in my soul. This is my cross, my dagger, my napalm, my dance of the dead…

Being burned out is a lot better than having no fire in the fist place.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.