Exhausted Quotes

“For a moment I felt joyful, and then I felt completely exhausted.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Sleep did not honor me with it’s presence.”
― Alysha Speer, Sharden

“I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel

“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable?”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched....”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a morning person.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

“Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“For the first time in a very long time, I felt like I had family. You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until someone stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.” So I fell down. And Harry caught me.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“One foot in front of the other was all she could manage.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“In the spring of the year birds began to arrive on the beach from across the gulf. Weary passerines. Vireos. Kingbirds and grosbeaks. Too exhausted to move. You could pick them up out of the sand and hold them trembling in your palm. Their small hearts beating and their eyes shuttering. He walked the beach with his flashlight the whole of the night to fend away predators and toward the dawn he slept with them in the sand. That none disturb these passengers.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“The more exhausted I let myself get, the more I'll slip up. Human bodies betray us. They get starved and sick and run-down. I know it, and yet, there is always so much more to do.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Exhausted yet they kept pushing forward by the grace of God to reach the promise land.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Once in the taxi he recalled how Herbert had introduced him to a group of strangers. ‘I want you to shake the hand of the most brilliant student of our class at McGill. He could have been a success at anything he wanted. Instead he’s devoted his life to teaching.’ It was clear that they still took him for the freshly scrubbed idealist who had left McGill twenty years ago. They had no idea that he was exhausted, bitter, and drained, and that given the chance he would never become a teacher.”
― Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

“Cassian asked, 'What stair did you make it to?'

'One hundred eleven.' Nesta didn't rise.

'Pathetic.'

Her fingers pushed into the floor, but her body didn't move. 'This stupid House wouldn't give me wine.'

'I figured that would be the only motivator to make you risk ten thousand stairs.'

Her fingers dug into the stone floor once more.

He threw her a crooked smile, glad for the distraction. 'You can't get up, can you?'

Her arms strained, elbows buckling. 'Go fly into a boulder.'

Cassian pushed off the wall and reached her in three strides. He wrapped his hands under her arms and hauled her up.

She scowled at him the entire time. Glared at him some more when she swayed and he gripped her tighter, keeping her upright.

'I knew you were out of shape,' he observed, stepping away when she'd proved she wasn't about to collapse, 'but a hundred steps? Really?'

'Two hundred, counting the ones up,' she grumbled.

'Still pathetic.'

She straightened her spine and raised her chin.

Keep reaching out your hand.

Cassian shrugged, turning toward the hall and the stairwell that would take him up to his rooms. 'If you get tired of being weak as a mewling kitten, come to training.' He glanced over a shoulder. Nesta still panted, her face flushed and furious. 'And participate.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“If you are tired, slow down, don't back down.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“We shouldn't be this kind of tired at our age.”
― Yanna

“I think I’m going to wait until tomorrow to face today.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Why ways to brew coffee, when tea may be healthier.”
― Monaristw

“Tend to the circle of emotions [before] making tremendous decisions.

State of mind.”
― Psixomaxaristw

“The greatest fatigue that we experience is not incurred in fighting the battle. Rather, the greatest fatigue occurs when we run from the battle, for cowardice in retreat is always more exhausting than bravery forging ahead.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I view OSHA and the police the same way: Only interact with them when you have exhausted all other options available to you.”
― Steven Magee

“You have thirty minutes,' Cassian said from where he sat in the tall, swaying grass, sipping from his canteen. 'Use it however you wish.'

She said nothing. Even nodding felt like too much.

He opened the pack and chucked a canteen to her. 'Fill this. If you faint, you might fall off the mountain and break every bone in your body.'

She didn't look at him. Didn't let him see the word in her eyes. Good.

He went still, though. His next words were gentler- and she resented them, too. 'Rest up.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“She'd claimed it would be fine to die for her friends, that it was fine because they had made it, they had won, but to be killed by this nobody-

Nesta snarled. She had nothing left. Her body had given up on her. Like so many others had.
...
She was alone.

She had been born alone, and would die alone, and this awful male would be the one to kill her-”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“If you’re still standing on two feet, you might ask if you were really invested in the battle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Exhausted, but not tired enough to escape the torturous loop of pain that awaited her inactive brain...”
― Laurel Hightower, Crossroads

“and at night,
I've exhausted
all my words.”
― Artemis Moonlace, Habits of my Heart

“A deflated ball doesn’t bounce back.
#ShortStory”
― Niedria Kenny

“Forget not those who ensured you were up and running, when you were down and out.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“If I am not tired from fighting the battle, I am not fighting the battle.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough