I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has b...
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.
(n.) The state of being tired, or weary.
Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!
Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.
Are you tired? Are you feeling that you will not be able to reach your destination? Then all you have to remember is that those who reached their far and hard destinations also felt the same way on th...
I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.''Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
The feel of her own pillow, and of her own blankets reassured her. Both were familiar. And being tired was familiar too, it was a solid bodily ache, like the tiredness after too much jumping or cricke...
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after bot...
I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.
Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired.
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.
He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.
A great need of something to lean on, and a great weariness of independence and responsibility took possession of my soul; and looking round for support and comfort in that transitory mood, the emptin...
No amount of sleep will ever satisfy the tiredness i always feel.
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.
To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!
He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness.
You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.
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