Social Exhaustion Quotes

I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours - definitely past my bedtime - and they all go home exhausted.

I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

The verdict of history ... is that worn out ideas have never risen to power among a people who have worn them out.

When I get some time off, I don't even want to see people half the time.

One thing I'm not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.

You can vibe out when people are getting tired or they're too drunk to keep going along with.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!"

So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

After an hour or two of being socially on, we introverts need to turn off and recharge ... This isn't antisocial. It isn't a sign of depression.

I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.

I'm a bit of an introvert, so after talking for an hour and then shaking hands and taking pictures with the people who came out, I kind of need to be alone for a bit to get away from all stimuli.

At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.

I prefer to stay in if I have a choice. I lose energy being around people. I know that sounds horrible.

Most people leave work at the end of the day so they can surround themselves with people and talk, but those are both things I do all day anyway! So I tend to seek out peace in my private time.

People can't go into the street endlessly. My friends get asked why aren't they going to the next protest? They answer, 'Because we're tired of being thousands. I'm ready to become the 100,000th person at a rally, but I don't want to be the 10,000th. Because it's pointless.'