Quotes About Exhaustion

When I was being forgiving, I said that my mother was simply exhausted. I suspected, though, she was simply mean.

Excessive rewards are a sign of desperation. Excessive punishments are a sign of exhaustion.

Bereavement, she had discovered, was about many things, but one of those, and the one which few people seemed to know or warn about, was a long-lasting, overwhelming physical and mental tiredness.

I felt heavy and sick in my head, stale and tired and jangled too, my nerves and my imagination were all on edge.

And because of all that we have been through, I am sick of the word unprecedented. The use of the word unprecedented is unprecedented. Make it stop.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

I am sick of having opinions. I am sick of talking.

Everyone else not real-very distant, small figures. I would have to swim a thousand miles to reach the margin of the relationship, on the other side of which might lie other people, and it was too far, I was too tired. The almost infinitely extending network of that relationship; its dense weave That's what held me-

Her body was heavy and tired, and she thought, I can't carry myself another step into this life.

And then I sagged forward, utterly spent, emptied…light as air. I felt like I could have floated up and out…slipping through the open window and drifting away across the rooftops and satellite dishes and telephone wires…sailing away into the faintly smiling stars.

Tammy said, "It's all just a matter of being exhausted with whatever's your normal. Over there, the Palestinians launch rockets and become suicide bombers—over here we just OD.

The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

Recordar cansa, esto es algo que no nos enseñan, la memoria es una actividad agotadora, drena las energías y desgasta los músculos.

He'd thought diapers were bad. The barfing was arguably worse. Maybe it was an early warning sign of alcoholism: the girl would chugalug an entire bottle at one sitting, and then she'd hurl—and then she'd pass out.

Though there is a spectrum of sensitivity that exists in human beings, empaths are emotional sponges who absorb both the stress and joy of the world. We feel everything, often to an extreme, and have little guard up between others and ourselves. As a result, we are often overwhelmed by excessive stimulation and are prone to exhaustion and sensory overload.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

La pereza no es más que el hábito de descansar antes de cansarte

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

Standing still is always more tiring than walking

Please just say what you mean. It is exhausting trying to determine what everyone is saying to me when it has nothing to do with the words that are actually coming out of their mouths.

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.

Oh, how this sucked. This sucked so thoroughly. It was hard to even quantify the level of suck involved here.