Quotes About Exhaustion

The midday heat sapped her strength, and the sluggishness reached through to her thoughts

A bone-deep weariness gripped the assassin

He wiped sweat from his brow, drew a shaky breath.

All breaks in the narrative of living had more to do with the limits of what could be sustained at any one time, the reach of temporary exhaustion. Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

But I am tired of sympathy. Of feeling it, at least. I'd welcome receiving it, if only to salve all this self-pity.

He found himself drifting off, not for the first time, finding that place in his head where every thought rattled like chains, and he could only drag himself in crooked circles, the weight stealing his strength, his willingness to go on.

I'm so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.

Just contemplating the energy required to make small talk tired him.

He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor...

Her whole body was sick of him, sore and bored and sick.

The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score.

I work 18 to 20 hours a day, seven days a week, so I don't have time for a social life. Or any life outside work.

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby.

Like a car idling, I gave of my energy until there was nothing more in my tank to give... all the while going nowhere.

one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.

Some days I really love being a mom, and some days I don't! It's crazy - I'm tired of packing lunches!

I'm tired of justifying why I love someone. I'm done with the explaining.

When you're emotionally, physically, mentally or spiritually drained, bad things happen. - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

the countless cups of coffee I drank to get through it—

To flee forever is beyond the capacity of most: at some point even a hunted animal will stop, exhausted, and awaits its fate, if only for a while.

Arif expended so much energy defining himself in opposition to other people, other musical tastes, other fashions, other views, other politics, other members of his own family that he was too exhausted to know who he really was. He thought she was weak and he was strong because he rebelled and she did not. But it took strength to work hard and do your duty, and it was she who had what she wanted in this world. He didn't even know what he wanted. She felt sorry for him.

But you know, I get tired of these overwhelming physical presences like your Mr. Hawke. All charisma and outsized ego, using the intensity of their beliefs to hit you like a fist. It's wearing.