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Quotes About Exhausted

There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden. These parents need space for their ambivalence, whether they can allow it for themselves or not. For those who love, there should be no shame in being exhausted—even in imagining another life.
~ Andrew Solomon
The pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
~ Samuel Johnson
Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
~ Samuel Johnson
The man was allergic to sleep.
~ Scott Westerfeld
The world's whole sap is sunk
~ John Donne
For all the insomniacs of the world I want to build a new kind of machine For flying out of the body at night. This will win peace prizes, I know it, But I can't do it myself; I'm exhausted, I need help from the inventors.
~ Edward Hirsch
Out of gin and tired as hell.
~ Ari Berk
An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
~ Ameen Rihani
Often you'd find yourself exhausted backstage during a matinee with glitter on your face, asking a colleague, 'Who's your gas supplier?' At the time, I thought, 'This would make a brilliant TV comedy drama.'
~ John Bishop
The brandy was all drunk.
~ Fritz Leiber
When the "deity" of the other is deflated, either because it is exhausted or because one becomes accustomed to living with a "god" or a "goddess," there is a terrific sense of ennui and boredom.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
I consider myself a law-abiding person. But I'm exhausted. I don't know where to put the bottles, newspapers, cans, and other stuff for garbage pickup outside my house. The rules are so thick you need someone from M.I.T. to explain them.
~ Bill O'Reilly
My heart is so tired
~ Rudyard Kipling
Now go and get some rest; you look like a cat dragged you backward through a blackberry bush.
~ S. Harrison
Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.
~ Anna Quindlen
I, for one, am exhausted. I've been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't know about you, but I have to sleep. I had a long night and I'm exhausted. She was rather tired, too. But as she slid her gaze to the fake leather sofa, she realized it would never fit both of them. Hunter grinned at her. You take the couch, I'll sleep on the floor. Can you do that? I've slept in worse places. Yeah, but don't you need a coffin?
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.
~ Marcia Cross
If that was not enough, Franklin also kept his exhausted younger cohort awake far into the night with an interminable disquisition on colds.
~ John Ferling
I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.
~ John Grisham
I was too exhausted with memories and the volatile tears that memories seemed to drag from me at every opportunity now.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Everything that comes into Jean's view these days is met with this kind of abject indifference. She feels as thought she has exhausted her life's allotment of emotion, good and bad.
~ Elizabeth Crane
Exhausted and feverishly hot, I would burrow into bed, my body aching. I dreamt strange dreams and punched in my sleep.
~ Sam Sheridan