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Quotes About Exhaustion

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.
~ Lilith Saintcrow
I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
~ Louis C. K.
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.
~ B. H. Liddell Hart
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
~ Ernie Pyle
I haven't tried out one of those straw mattresses yet, but they look real uncomfortable," said Alex. "You'd have to be pretty tired to like it." "If you worked all day the way they did, you would be," answered Hilary.
~ Susan E. Goodman
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.
~ Susan Orlean
Burnout…occurs because we're trying to solve the same problem over and over.
~ Susan Scott
I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
~ Suzanne Collins
But by afternoon, I know the end is coming. My legs are shaking and my heart is too quick. I keep forgetting exactly what I'm doing. I've stumbled repeatedly and managed to regain my feet, but when the stick slides out from under me, I finally tumble to the ground unable to get up. I let my eyes close.
~ Suzanne Collins
Cuando me despierto del todo.. me pesa todo el cuerpo, como si me corriese plomo líquido por las venas.
~ Suzanne Collins
All I want to do is collapse on my metal plate.
~ Suzanne Collins
People keep talking at me, talking, talking, talking
~ Suzanne Collins
Yes. I'm calling for a cease-fire," says Peeta tiredly. "Now why don't we ask the guards to take me back to my quarters so I can build another hundred card houses?
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm so tired, Katniss.
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm not tired,I'm just checking my eyelids for holes.It could take a while.
~ Suzanne Wright
Like my soul is wearing thin.
~ Suzanne Young
Injustice has exhausted people but also pushed them to organize and fight back in very sophisticated ways.
~ Shaun King
During the season, I'm sore everywhere.
~ P. J. Tucker
I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.
~ Brenda Perlin
Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.
~ Eknath Easwaran
I'm tired again this morning. Was I sleepwalking in your nightmares again last night?
~ Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
The coffee is not strong enough to keep me awake.
~ J. Limbu
if you need to be continuously on the watch, doesn't that cause fatigue?
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Needless to say they were usually sleep-deprived.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb