Tired Quotes

Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.

~ Klaus Schwab

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

~ Mark Twain

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

~ Roberto Cavalli

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

~ Claire Tomalin

I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.

~ Lisa Lampanelli

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

~ Evelyn Underhill

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

~ Dorothy Thompson

The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.

~ Susan Orlean

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

~ Paulo Coelho

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.

~ Robert Dallek

We are tired of having our integrity impugned. We are tired of having our sincerity questioned. We are tired of having our intelligence insulted.

~ Terry Sanford

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

~ Martin Luther King

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

~ Henry Rollins

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

~ James Mcavoy

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

~ Oscar Wilde

If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.

~ Emil Zatopek

I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.

~ Rae Carson

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

~ Lefty Gomez

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

~ Sherman Alexie

I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

~ Michelle Obama

I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli, and it seems to work.

~ Peter Jackson

I always ate healthy, but it wasn't scientific. Now it's a high-protein diet and no carbohydrates. I have more consistent energy, and I don't get tired after a meal. It does take a very detailed meal plan.

~ Lindsey Vonn

Diet Coke is the only way I get through filming because I get so tired.

~ Lily James

I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster.

~ Joe E. Lewis

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

~ Anton Chekhov

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

~ Benito Mussolini

There's something so great about being with your nephew and, when you're tired, just handing him off back to your sister.

~ Tahj Mowry

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap.

~ Casper Van Dien

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

~ Jim Hightower

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

~ Daniel Kahneman

I'm usually always very happy and funny and positive. It's only when I'm tired that I get a little low energy.

~ Nargis Fakhri

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

~ Steven Wright

I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but just for the sake of change. There is so much junk in the world: junk TV, junk movies, all those junk magazines with the same people on the cover.

~ Tom Ford

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

~ Jennifer Granholm

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at.

~ Colleen Atwood

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

~ Jean Kerr

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

~ Jules Renard

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

~ Chris Robinson