Quotes About Exhaustion

I was so tired that I was nothing but my body: the steady dull throb in my thighs, the tremor all along my arms, the thick grime of dust muffling my skin.

All labor systems that depend on coercing a work force into accepting bad conditions and unfair compensation have recognized the effectiveness of keeping that work force exhausted to keep it from making trouble.

Todos os sistemas de trabalho que dependem da coação de uma mão de obra, forçando-a a aceitar condições más e remuneração injusta, reconheceram a eficácia de manter essa mão de obra exausta para impedir que ela se rebele.

To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

Estoy harto de entierros. No quiero tener que asistir al tuyo. — Mejor, porque no está usted invitado.

Keep on. The work of the world is always done by creatures too tired to do it.

It's been one nightmare after another, Christina thought. Pretty soon I won't be able to keep track of them all.

They slept that deep sleep reserved for babies and consenting adults who have worn their bodies out with hot sex.

tired as she was, the idea of stirrups

The love she felt was so hard that she had to squeeze him to her until her arms were tired.

It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to be, 'Keep on your toes and smile.' Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. Even her ears were tired.

The warring love and hatred--love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people--that left him exhausted and sick in spirit.

The warring love and hatred—love for his people and hatred for the oppressors of his people—that left him exhausted and sick in spirit. 'Daughter

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

Mattie felt drained, as though someone had stood her on her head and poured her entire heart and soul right out of her body.

If only they knew how his days were covered in darkness, as if someone had turned off the light switch in his mind; if only they knew how his waking up in the morning was the first disappoint of every day. He was tired, he had nothing left to give, no more ideas to try.

don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

all my bounce has gone flat, like soda with the top left off.

I am around ladies' clothing all day long, and I get real sick of clothes.

The jet lag really gets to me sometimes and I still haven't found a cure.

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

There is nothing worse after a long car journey than to have to go to meetings.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.