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Quotes About Tiredness

A tiredness crept over her that would shame narcoleptics. She could sleep anytime, anywhere, in any position. No hyperbole. I mean, we'd be at the dinner table, and I'd be in mid-sentence when I'd detect a fresh, eerie silence in the room, the kind that didn't sound to my blind man's ears like somebody listening. I'd just carry on with dinner, and hope that she'd made it to bed this time.
~ Ryan Knighton
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't sleep much. It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a bit of an insomniac but, when I fall asleep, I don't ever want to wake up.
~ Enrique Iglesias
I was wearied to death with small talk—nothing wears me out like that. I cannot imagine how they can go on as they do.
~ Anne Bronte
I didn't quite understand about last night," he said. "What was that? Can we talk about it?" His voice was meek but pushy, Willa thought, and she didn't feel like answering him, but she knew he would keep on pressing her until she did. So she shrugged again and said, "I was just overtired, I guess.
~ Anne Tyler
I didn't have to go. I could fade into the crowd, be pushed along through the tunnel, into the city. I could roll along in my bubble ball. I was used to moving, used to packing up and following along like a robot, but I was tired of it. I wanted to stop moving and I wanted to be somewhere and stay somewhere and I wanted my family.
~ Sharon Creech
Look, I admit you seem like a decent person. For all I know you stop and move turtles out of the road whenever you see one to keep someone from running it over. But this turtle is tired of having its guts spattered on the pavement while other people drive right over him. I just want to scrape myself up and hide in the woods, okay? (Aiden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
También había conocido entonces el inconfundible olor del agotamiento, como si la fatiga poseyera un aroma propio.
~ John Katzenbach
Time should have stopped with the clocks but instead it moved in a glazed dream of tiredness without their ticking insistence.
~ John McGahern
Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
I'm old. I'm so old I'm about done with liven. I can feel how old I am. I'm old and old and old. I've been in life a long, long time. Oh, how old I am.
~ Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Another way to help an active child slow down to allow tiredness to set in is to use a relaxation technique such as massage or yoga.
~ Elizabeth Pantley
I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real. I feel like I died when everyone else on the plane did and I'm the only one who's noticed.
~ Elizabeth Scott
In this city of New York, I see children crying from tiredness, which is real, and sometimes from just crabbiness, which is real. But once in a while I see a child crying with the deepest of desperation, and I think it is one of the truest sounds a child can make... I have left the subway car I was riding in so i did not have to hear a child crying that way.
~ Elizabeth Strout
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
MMA makes you sore and tired every day. I wonder what we're going to be like when we're 50 or 60. I wake up some mornings and just say, 'Oh, God.' And then I go scuba diving.
~ Donald Cerrone
I can only work out for so long before I start to really feel the effects.
~ Terrell Davis
I bought an energy bar, and as I ate it a great weariness came over me.
~ Sam Lipsyte
Äiti rakas en jaksa kutoa olen nääntynyt ikävästä kiitos ihanan Afrotiden
~ Sapfo
I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o'clock in the morning.
~ Kate Moss
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.
~ Pablo Picasso
I'm exhausted almost all the time.
~ Emily VanCamp
Cansarse es una manera de domar el cuerpo, pero el agotamiento del cuerpo termina por entumecer al alma. Queda por saber, Mónica, si un alma inquieta no vale más que un alma dormida.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar