95 Quotes About Exhaustion

I came to the end of myself fighting to birth the beginning of a dream. But what really brought me to the end of myself was that I was foolish enough to fight for a dream without including the God that had given it to me.

In a reverse way, sharing my mother's long, slow dying consumes my creative energy. I manage one angry and bitter story, and feel better for it, but most of me is involved in Mother's battle. Watching her slowly being snuffed out is the opposite of pregnancy, depleting instead of fulfilling: I am exhausted by conflict.

Now, first of all, you're going to start telling yourself that you are not defined by your job. It's there to provide you with a salary, period. These people, they're just turds floating in your vicinity. I'm going to give you three weeks of sick leave, and you're going to flush the toilet.

Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity

It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.

(...) one of the most unendurable aspects of such an interlude was the inability to sleep (...) the disruption of normal sleep patterns is a notoriously devastating feature of depression (...). It had become clear that I would never be granted even a few minutes' relief from my full-time exhaustion.

Ich muss gestehen, die These, dass die Menschheit einem Denkfehler Gottes entsprungen ist, scheint mir plausibler als die Schöpfungsgeschichten aller anderen mir bekannten Religionen." - "Aufgrund der vielen Schwierigkeiten, die das Leben in dieser dummen Welt bereitet, sprechen wir nicht von der Schöpfung, sondern von der Erschöpfung.

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

She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option.