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Quotes About Tired

It is interesting that they sometimes say that if they were alone for long they wouldn't be able to work or play in order to get tired; and so they wouldn't be able to sleep.
~ Rollo May
Why did you stay so faithful? Oh, I wasn't so good—I was just tired of them. Men. They're stressful. You'll see.
~ Louise Erdrich
You've been looking piqued all week.
~ Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Fewmets is my new swear word. I'm tired of all the old ones.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
I felt foolish and tired, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind to discover there was no one there.
~ Amy Tan
How beautiful to dream. But dreams, I tell Gil, in one of our quiet moments are so damned tiring. He laughs. I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.
~ Andre Agassi
Feminists have good reasons for feeling tired. The backlash against feminism has been deeply stupid.
~ Andrea Dworkin
Shiftless, lazy, and dadblasted tired
~ Andrew Levy
The doorbell rang during dinner. Alan got up to answer, saying, If it's the missionaries I might let them in. I'm too tired to put up a fight.
~ Sara Zarr
It's been a long night. Aren't they all.
~ Sarah Dessen
I've encountered my fair share of war reenactors over the years, but I've never seen a reenactment of this banal predicament: a tired woman in a dark house answering a child who is supposed to be asleep that she has no idea when Daddy's coming home.
~ Sarah Vowell
And while the losses were small they weren't gains, were they? They were losses. He was tired of losing, and tired also of the company, and so he had gone by himself to the movies.
~ Saul Bellow
The man was allergic to sleep.
~ Scott Westerfeld
But he was wounded, and tired, and winter was still upon him.
~ John Connolly
Your ego wants to move through life risk-free, foolish-free, discouragement-free, mistake-free, tired-free.
~ Christine Kane
If you're tired of style, you are tired of life.
~ Jim Carter
I was working at a phone company. I got tired of my life and wanted to change it.
~ Chi McBride
and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey
~ Edward Thomas
Self-control requires mental energy, and each of us has a limited reservoir. When we're tired, these energy reserves run low, and our self-control suffers. This is why, warns a 2015 review from Clemson University, sleep deprivation puts us at greater risk of "succumbing to impulsive desires, poor attentional capacity, and compromised decision making.
~ Arianna Huffington
The evidence is all around us. For instance, do you know what happens if you type the words "why am I" into Google? Before you can type the next word, Google's autocomplete function—based on the most common searches—helpfully offers to finish your thought. The first suggestion: "why am I so tired?" The global zeitgeist perfectly captured in five words. The existential cry of the modern age. And
~ Arianna Huffington
I learned a lot while labouring and gardening. Whenever I feel tired and want to go home while doing TV work, I just think how tough groundworking is.
~ Gethin Jones
Tired. We get swapped out , all of us. The replacements run the world, let a few folks stick around but most go to storage for the concluding years. It's like at work, they don't really care what you've done, what you can do, how the work is or isn't, all they care about is getting you out the door, replacing you and starting over. The Company lives forever.
~ Frederick Barthelme
Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.
~ Ross David Burke