Quotes About Exhaustion

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

It was almost like I was in the army: school, work, homework, fly to New York, get in at 2 in the morning, do a morning show at 5 A.M., then another one at 7, then a radio interview at 10, you know?

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

And I wish I could say I stayed up late thinking about him but the truth is I was only awake a little while. I was so tired the swag felt like a sponge that soaked me up. I went to sleep like someone disappearing from the earth, like rain sopped into dust.

He'd worn himself ragged with second-guessing until his head felt like a tinful of bees.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

You don't get ads on the Underground saying: "Tired? Then Sleep More," as no one has figured out how to make money this way.

Worldwide, the mania for consumer goods has created a deadly culture of overwork.

be a certain percentage of citizens who will try to strip-mine and suck dry everything they can

Women stopped crying and danced; men sat down and cried; children danced, women laughed, children cried until, exhausted and riven, all and each lay about the Clearing damp and gasping for breath.

Finally Milkman could take no more; he had to rest. At the next tree he sank down to the ground and put his head back on its bark. Let them laugh if they wanted to; he would not move until his heart left from under his chin and went back down into his chest where it belonged.

I'll take hate any day. But don't give me love. I can't take no more love, Lord. I can't carry it.

Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.

But no place gives you everything. I'm equally mistrustful of the energy bursts New York gives you, which fragment and exhaust you. Living there gives you a phony sense of self-importance and confidence. If you're at all anxious, the city acts out your anxiety for you, leaving you feeling strangely peaceful.

Even warriors get weary when the battle doesn't end.

Sometimes, Ada," she said, "I get very tired of you setting the example for us all.

During the lockdowns, video conversations were for many a personal and professional lifesaver, allowing us to maintain human connections, long-distance relationships and connections with our colleagues. But they have also generated a phenomenon of mental exhaustion, popularized as "Zoom fatigue": a condition that applies to the use of any video interface

Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

I'm tired, & supporting the entire world has ruined my back.

Love gets used up, Chastity. If it's not returned, it gets used up.

She was so tired of being strong.

the sun is using up its combustible hydrogen and will eventually exhaust it and extinguish. The sun too is getting older, and in fact produces heat. The moon also appears to orbit Earth unchangingly and always equal to itself, whereas in reality it is slowly moving away. This is because it raises tides, and the tides heat the sea a little, thus exchanging energy with the moon.

Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.