Quotes About Exhaustion

Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of exhaustion, then had a trial by fire. In a way, she earned those powers, as she hadn't before, so that was certainly a confidence builder.

Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body.

I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

The great twentieth-century monk Thomas Merton encountered precisely the same spiritual exhaustion partway through his life. The chief source of this exhaustion, he writes, "is the selfish anxiety to get the most out of everything, to be a sparkling

Eventually, it was around midnight, I was told to get ready and put the gloves on. I felt physically depleted and drained of energy, and had no get-up-and-go left in me. I wanted a bed badly, not a boxing ring.

It would have served me right if I'd had a cerebral aneurysm on the spot. Instead, I forgot all about my foot—until we shoved the flat onto the stage. I think we broke my ankle. This is bullshit. I have finals to worry about.

It was 9pm, the fag end of another dismal day.

Let me tell you, deep-water sea-bitch wrestling can work up an awful appetite. Then

The challenge is that often when we think about success or think about our goals, we think it'll be good, and there will also be something which is bad. Therefore we have an inner conflict. If we can't iron out that conflict, we exhaust ourselves fighting against part of us that wants to do this, and part of us that doesn't want to do it. We're pushed and pulled in all kinds of directions by our own internal programs, many of which are unconscious to us.

I'm exhausted trying to stay healthy.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything.

If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

I'm always without sleep. I've got two kids. I understand sleep deprivation on a profound level.

After a day in Cannes, I pass out before I even get to my bed. I'll get to my room, order room service, shower, and sleep.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

I know that I need a lot of sleep, and while I'm filming, I probably won't get it.

I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live.

I fall asleep everywhere! Someone recently asked if they could publish a book of pictures of me sleeping because there are so many.

For me, breastfeeding was even more painful than giving birth. And despite a lactation consultant, I felt incompetent. I forged on, barely sleeping, always either breastfeeding or pumping and never getting the hang of it.

I've gone days without sleeping.

I genuinely didn't start sleeping properly until I had kids of my own. And then that was just sleeping because of exhaustion.