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...
Any work is always improvable, you cannot really finish the work, you can only abandon it out of tiredness or incompetence.
(n.) The state of being tired, or weary.
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.
Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!
He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness.
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.
You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.
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...
To live the extraordinary ecstasy of a good rest, all you have to do is to get very tired!
Heroes may die but they doesn't get tired.
I just realized that sleep sometimes is the only precious wage for the hard working man.
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.
No amount of sleep will ever satisfy the tiredness i always feel.
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...
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.
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.
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
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...
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.
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