Sarah Dessen Quotes

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.

There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

Passion and strife bow down the mind.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

I think you can get so mentally beat by kind of working yourself up too much.

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck.

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

I think too much during my day-to-day life; I'm the guy who worries about everything.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

... too emotionally strung out.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

I just think too much sometimes.

I felt, when I was 20, I wasn't quite ready for the physical contact of 82 games. Mentally, it was tough. I forgot what city we were in most of the time. I can't even imagine going through it at 18 or 19.

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

It wears on your soul when you take on the mental state of a dark character.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)

Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: "i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.