Quotes About Exhaustion

I had been wading up to my neck in all this niceness for years. I woke up to it, went to sleep in it. I breathed niceness and slowly it was killing me.

By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

We've worn our words to death, when now I say: my love, nothing happens, absolutely nothing. And yet, before the words were spent, I'm certain that everything trembled at the mere murmur of your name in the silence of my heart. Now we have nothing to give. There is nothing within you that asks me for water. The past is useless as a rag. And I've told you already: the words are spent. Good-bye.

To live in constant apprehension of life. Exhaustion before one has made the effort. To attempt to laugh at it all, until the laughter becomes slightly sad, until tedium covers everything with its tenebrous haze.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

Relentless and cynical traffic-trawling is bad for the soul.

I work independently of the director, and to some extent, that's actually a big relief to them. When I come to them in post-production, they're tired and over-budget. What can be better to them than presenting a full score totally gift-wrapped?

There are always times when you don't want to go to the rink, or you don't want to do all the things you're supposed to do. Sometimes you're exhausted, or it's been a long week, but I always remind myself that this is my Olympic dream and the passion, because I love the sport very much.

I was working maybe four different jobs just to make ends meet. I was really broke. I could barely pay rent. I didn't have a car. I was riding my bike from one job to another and then to audition in between.

From politics to getting replaced by another actor or not getting references, I'm done with all of it.

People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.

On stage, you have to hype yourself for two hours. It takes up a lot of energy, leaving me totally exhausted.

I'm quite tired, so when 'Dancing On Ice' is over I need a good holiday.

You know, Slams are tough. It's the most physical, in my opinion. You're playing three out of five.

When you play well, and you don't win, in the end, you get tired. You've lost something. You've lost time.

I fear drama more than films. The amount of work and exhaustion are incomparable.

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining.

You can only be independently creative for so long until your brain burns out.

Love unto exhaustion, work unto exhaustion, and walk unto exhaustion....The only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it. The world is made of fire. —MARK HELPRIN, A SOLDIER OF THE GREAT WAR

People often imagine that sailors are a breed of supermen; that we almost never sleep, spend all our time handling sails, never get a hot meal. If they only knew!

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

MOMMY WANTS A GLASS OF CHARDONNAY If you collected all the drops of days I've spent singing "Row, row, row your boat" to children fighting sleep, you'd have an ocean deep enough to drown them many times over.

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.