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Quotes About Exhaustion

Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
~ Shaunti Feldhahn
Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying.
~ Phil Daniels
Obviously living on the road is pretty hard to stay in shape while you're gone on the road all the time having to eat out three meals a day, just being physically and mentally exhausted.
~ Erica Enders-Stevens
By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.
~ Esther Williams
If you use your will all the time, then it runs out. You deplete yourself and then, when you really need it, it's not there.
~ Frederick Lenz
Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
~ Glen Hansard
I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep
~ Jordin Sparks
When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
~ Josh Gad
Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.
~ John Bonham
We travel so much, I never adjust to time zones any more.
~ Jillian Hervey
I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.
~ Erin Morgenstern
And the need to dissemble after all these years of doing so just seemed too much of an effort now.
~ Mary Balogh
She spread her hands over her face, but wearily this time. There were no tears left.
~ Mary Balogh
He sat on the edge of the bed, his aching head in his hands for a few moments. Deuce take it, I wish I were dead.
~ Mary Balogh
No one who does not live with constant pain can imagine the toll it takes. The way it grinds you down. The sheer damnable tedium of it.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Her face was red and beaded with sweat. Her eyes looked terribly tired.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I grew very weary and irritable with the curate's perpetual ejaculations;
~ Mary Shelley
For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Now, on his way to another lecture, the very thought of entering a room full of students, who still thought it was possible to learn all about something, made him yawn.
~ Matthew Pearl
It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.
~ Maureen Johnson
Except for his eyes. Those were completely bloodshot. "What time did you get up?" David said, looking him over. "Four twenty?
~ Maureen Johnson
She didn't want to be brave anymore. It was exhausting. Anxiety crawled under her skin all the time, like some alien creature that might burst through at any moment. Stevie
~ Maureen Johnson