Quotes About Exhaustion

I am tired from having lived seventeen different lives, compressed into the space of one.

Pain is interesting. I dislike it immensely but I've never experienced pain and boredom at the same time. Even when I had unending and severe pain in my lower back for several years I was never bored by the pain, though it exhausted me.

I read The Old Man and the Sea but my eyelids bled from the toothpicks that I used to keep them open.

If all that boasting doesn't tire you out, nothing will!' -- Peter Parker

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

And they walked on until they crested the hill. Where they paused, panting.

I don't want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can't think again. Not ever again.

I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand? ...

The exhausted mind is obsession's easiest prey.

It wasn't that I was lazy- I was a bloody hard worker- I just found concentrating on one thing particularly difficult when I had such mammoth internal battles going on. Only when I was physically exhausted did I seem to manage a modicum of internal peace, when my mind would stop ticking over. I needed to try and get to grips with it all. There was a very little awareness about 'mental health' in those days. I just felt like I was mad

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on.

I felt suddenly, unbearably tired. I felt this peculiar urge to say sorry, and I wasn't sure what for.

was easy to lose perspective when you'd had no sleep and had been stuck for forty-eight hours with a gastro-intestinally challenged man and a bathroom with deeply inadequate soundproofing.

Es agotador estar junto a alguien tan deprimido. Aunque la compadezca, es inevitable sentir la sensación de decirle que se espabile.

I hadn't slept properly for days and felt half dead, as if the fury and adrenalin that had sustained me had all leached away.

Fancy a friendly beer with an exhausted corporate wage slave?

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

It's not easy for a rebel to remain a rebel all his life. It's exhausting

Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival.

We had a profound time with the terrain and the weather. The terrain was -- I think the terrain equaled the NVA, it was so bad. It was so goddamn bad. By the time you got into a fire fight or something, you were so fucking tired I don't think you cared that much. Don't care. That's the way I see it.

We were a total mess. We'd been up all night. We smelled of ectoplasm, salt, and fear. We looked at one another, and grinned. Then we began laughing.

We are a fine party of heroes. Half drowned, half frozen, half dead with tiredness and sick to our stomachs through drinking half the ocean. Not to mention that all our supplies are feeding the fish.

Sono troppo stanco di compromessi. O forse, sono troppo stanco e basta.

las redacciones de los diarios, donde la gente dormía mal, se asoleaba poco y bebía mucho.