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Quotes About Tiredness

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.
~ Sylvia Plath
We danced about a mile apart the whole time, until during "Auld Lang Syne" he suddenly rested his chin on the top of my head as if he were very tired.
~ Sylvia Plath
Sólo alcanzaba a advertir la casa triste, que Rema estaba como cansada, que apenas llovía y las cosas tenían, sin embargo, algo de húmedo y abandonado
~ Julio Cortazar
Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.
~ Justin Cronin
But he was fatigued. Worn out like an old banner allowed to flap in the wind through too many rainstorms.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I am strong, but I am tired, Stephen, tired of always having to be the strong one, of always having to do the right thing.
~ Brenda Joyce
She spoke as to a child who could not understand All the futility that lay ahead Yet who she knew would go on to repeat Repeat repeat the things men had to learn. The gods gave death to man and kept life for Themselves. That is the only way it is. Cherish your rests; the children you might have; You are a thing that carries so much tiredness.
~ Herbert Mason
I was tired. I hadn't slept eight hours in two, three years. I lived on four, five hours of sleep. You can do it during a campaign because thousands are screaming for you. You're getting adrenaline shots each day. Then the campaign ends, and there are no more shots.
~ George McGovern
Running around trees and across paddy fields can be exhausting after a while.
~ Mahima Chaudhry
And all of the late, late-night talks, when you're not stoned, but you're so tired you might as well be, when you just sit there glowing with warmth, and all of those things that you really hope for come out, and you connect with each other on such deep levels that, when you think about it the next day, you wonder if it was real - if the others felt it too.
~ Steven Brust
I've gone days without sleeping.
~ Bria Vinaite
My mother never slept.
~ Toyah Willcox
Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang for an inner tiredness, a fatigue of our souls. Jesus came to forgive us all of our sins, including the sin of busyness. The problem with growth in the modern church is not the slowness of growth but the rushing of growth.
~ Michael Yaconelli
I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me.
~ Bram Stoker
Don't! Pity! Your! Self! The wounds of vanity, the many offenses our egos have to endure, being housed in bodies that age and hearts that grow tired, are better accepted with a tolerant smile – like this! – You see?… Otherwise what you become is a bag full of curdled cream – leche mala as we call it! – attractive to nobody, least of all to yourself!
~ Tennessee Williams
And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.
~ Gary Shteyngart
I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.
~ Brian Andreas
He doesn't trouble himself with closing the shutter - total darkness, sense deprivation, might activate his thoughts. Better to stare at something and hope to feel his eyelids grow heavy. Already, his tiredness seems fragile or unreliable, like a pain that comes and goes. He needs to nurture it, and to avoid thoughts at all costs.
~ Ian Mcewan
You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
~ Natalie Morales
A bone-deep weariness gripped the assassin
~ Steven Erikson
I've never been one for naps. What I go for is insomnia elevated to an art form. I'll catch up on sleep when I die.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He felt enormously tired, as if he were an autumn leaf and his season were over. He felt ready to fall from the branch.
~ Caroline B. Cooney
Usually, I'm asleep by midnight.
~ Anita Dobson
I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.
~ Kaye Gibbons