Being Tired Quotes

“When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“When you feel tired or fatigued, more often than not it’s either because your brain has too much or not enough glucose to convert into mental energy.”
― Chris Bailey

“Everything wearies me, including what doesn't weary me. My happiness is as painful as my pain.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“My mom comes home exhausted every night.

I have never seen her not exhausted.

And also, I have never seen her not working.

People in Oklahoma think this must be how refugees are--never sitting, never sleeping, like they have no knees and no dreams. Maybe people think that's just the way my mom talks, kinda panicky and chipper at the same time, like someone scared who doesn't want you to think she's scared--even maybe like you're the one she's scared of.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue