John Irving Quotes

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

I do notice that I am tired.

He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

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.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.

Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

We're all a little tired.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

The worst thing in the world is to be tired.

Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted.