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Quotes About Exhaustion

I was panting by the time we reached the back of the casino. I felt perspiration run down my back and my sandals pinch my feet. They were adorable, but they were not made for chasing bad guys. Nevertheless, I kept going,
~ Gemma Halliday
I'm starting to associate the smell of pizza with the futility of a death march.
~ Gene Kim
I'm just getting too old for this shit.
~ Gene Steinberg
In your defence, it's been a long day and you've had a lot to drink.
~ George Axelrod
There were bags under my eyes and they weren't Prada.
~ Ilona Andrews
Every cell in her ached, as if her whole body had been through such a long and grueling punishment that it simply gave up and now wallowed in self-pity and pain.
~ Ilona Andrews
When I come crawling home, bleeding and filthy and exhausted, the house is dark and empty.
~ Ilona Andrews
She was too exhausted and downcast to take in the importance of the news- just as a person who has shed so many tears at the bedside of someone who is dying has none left for the actual moment of death.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Either people would think only about being able to survive and there would be no place for Art, or they would become obsessed by a new ideal, as after every crisis before. A new ideal? A new fashion, more like, he thought with cynicism and weariness. But he, Corte, was too old to adapt to new tastes. He had already changed his style in 1920. A third time would be impossible. It exhausted him just to think about what was to come, what kind of world was about to be born.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
I was now, all the time, unutterably tired as if simply keeping alive was a terrible effort.
~ Iris Murdoch
You can go now. There's nothing more to learn. I am poured out and empty. Good night.
~ Iris Murdoch
Was it that he had lived too long in his mind and was tired of the scenery?
~ Iris Murdoch
What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.
~ Irving Stone
Oh, hell! I can't sleep!" "Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle."   Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.
~ Isaac Asimov
La discusión se prolongaba y ambos se perdían en una oratoria confusa que los dejaba agotados, acusándose mutuamente de ser más testarudos que una mula, pero al final se daban las buenas noches con un beso y quedaban ambos con la sensación de que el otro era un ser maravilloso.
~ Isabel Allende
Su vida estaba hecha de ruinas encadenadas sin variantes, salvo aquellas marcadas por las estaciones. Sólo existía trabajo y cansancio para ella
~ Isabel Allende
I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.
~ Isabel Allende
Under their wings they harbor their own and others' children, friends, relatives, and hangers-on. They are always bone tired, weary from serving others, always putting off what they should do for themselves; the last among the last, they work tirelessly and age prematurely, but they never lose their capacity to laugh at themselves, their romantic hope that their partners will change, or the small flame of rebelliousness that burns in their hearts.
~ Isabel Allende
With 'Batman,' I actually had a really bad period when we started 'Zero Year,' right at the beginning, I just wasn't taking care of myself at all. I was up too late all the time, I was working too hard. I wasn't exercising.
~ Scott Snyder
The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
~ Ian Lustick
I am a clinical zombie.
~ Andy Biersack
We are constantly traveling from one place to another, dealing with hotels, time zones, jet lag and all those things.
~ Alex de Minaur
I can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't appreciate it. It's like a six-inch sheet of glass between me and Charing Cross Road.
~ Douglas Coupland
Coaches don't sleep for a reason. They don't sleep because it's a danger zone every night. Very seldom do you ever get two or three days off... The lifestyle of coaching in the NBA is a tremendous challenge that gives you tremendous highs but also tremendous lows.
~ George Karl