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So Tired Quotes

So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something.
- Louisa May Alcott

He closed his eyes. "I'm so tired, Tess," he said. "I only wanted pleasant dreams for once."
"That is not the way to get them, Will," she said softly. "You cannot buy or drug or dream your way out of pain.
- Cassandra Clare

It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the pope's health is recorded daily in the newspaper, very much like weather, or the TV schedule. Today the pope is tired. Yesterday, the pope was less tired than he is today. Tomorrow, we expect that the pope will not be so tired as he was today.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
- Steven Wright

I went along doing the one-salad-a-night routine for a year. And I remember feeling so tired and depressed and irritable. I had no personal life. I was always flying someplace - weekends, holidays, vacations. Dinners at night were no fun because I couldn't eat.
- Carol Alt

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy.
- Roger Bannister

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.
- Henri Barbusse

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.
- Lemony Snicket

Oh that. Men do fall in love with me. They seem to think me a creature with volcanic passions; I'm sure I don't know why. All the volcanic women I know are plain little creatures with sandy hair. I don't consider human volcanoes respectable. And I'm so tired of the subject. Our house is always full of women in love with my husband and men in love with me. We encourage it because it's pleasant to have company.
- George Bernard Shaw

Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.
Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am.
What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.
- Chuck Palahniuk

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing..
- Tim Burton

The realization that I'd have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.
- Suzanne Collins

I'm so tired of talking about Warren Buffett.
- Chris Christie

I was adopted into the Muchquauh, the Bear Clan, of the Muhheconneok people when I reached manhood. The grannies got so tired of my bein' forever at their fires eatin' their food that they decided to make me part of the family so they could quit treatin 'me like a guest and send me out to fish.
- Pamela Clare

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
- Bram Cohen

I told her about the time that I got so tired of you stealing the sheets that in my sleep-weary logic I decided that the thing to do was to tie them around my legs, knot and all, and how, when you attempted to steal them that night, you ended up yanking me into you, and I was so startled that I sprang up, tripped, and was nearly concussed.
- David Levithan

Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed.
- Malcolm Cowley

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
- Clea Duvall

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.
- Tina Fey

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.
- B C Forbes

... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead..
- Jostein Gaarder

I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.
- George R R Martin

She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. She was so tired, so stunned, that she thought she never slept at all; her feverish thoughts passed and repassed the boundary between sleeping and waking, and kept their own miserable identity.
- Elizabeth Gaskell

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar

I explained to the lady my love for John and his work, and she made it possible for me to purchase one of the 24 proofs, the one for 'I'm So Tired,' which I have on my piano at home.
- Arthur Godfrey

Can't promise I'll stay. That would be lying. And I'm so, so tired of lies.
- Ellen Hopkins

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.
- Lorraine Hansberry

Mama, you don't understand. It's all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don't acept. It's not important. I an not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don't believe in God. I don't even think about it. It's just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it's he who makes miracles!
- Lorraine Hansberry

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.
- Dorothy Parker

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.
- Bell Hooks

Sometimes when I read before bed I get so tired that my eyes gloss over the sentences without actually taking in any information, as my mind wanders in a pre dream state. That's also how I drive 99% of the time. The other 1% I'm just flat-out asleep.
- Jarod Kintz

I'm the only person I know who has slept through a fire drill. Apparently, I pulled the alarm. Yeah, I sleepwalk. Sometimes I sleep run. I was asleep when I ran the Boston Marathon. I was so tired when I finished that I slept for another sixteen hours.
- Jarod Kintz

My heart is so tired
- Markus Zusak

And so an awful confusion begins to collect, forming a cloud that sits around an absence of hope. Desperate sensations. Can't breath. Panic. Just trying to catch my breath, but I can't breath. I hurt so much, and I'm so tired that I don't even want to breath the breath I'm gasping for. There is no more. This is the most. It's just pain, channeled in one direction, using you as its host.
- Ashly Lorenzana

I was angry, but I was also tired and devastated by the idea that I would have to spend another four hours trying to reassemble some obnoxious feel-good movie that had done nothing but make me feel bad. I did what any tough, self-reliant, overburdened, sleep-deprived, seasoned investigator would do: I cried.
- Lisa Lutz

She got very tired, so tired that even her toys could no longer amuse her. You would wonder at that if I had time to describe to you one half of the toys she had. But then, you wouldn't have the toys themselves, and that makes all the difference: you can't get tired of a thing before you have it.
- George Macdonald

What is it?
Nothing. I had a bad dream.
What did you dream about?
Nothing.
Are you okay?
No.
He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.
I was crying. But you didnt wake up.
I'm sorry. I was just so tired.
I meant in the dream.
- Cormac Mccarthy

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
- Imelda Marcos

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.
- Catherine Mccormack

He sounded so tired and so earnest. I worried my lips between my teeth before asking, "Does this have anything to do with what you told me before?"
Tybalt blinked. Then he snorted a brief laugh, and asked, "October, in the years since your return... has anything not been in some way related to what I told you before? You handed me a hope chest in a dark alley. You took my heart as collateral, and you've never returned it.
- Seanan Mcguire

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired?
I sat very diligently, she said.
- Robin Mckinley

Is the fire gone?"
"Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward."
"I love you," he answered.
"I know," I breathed, so tired.
I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.
- Stephenie Meyer

I am so tired of being told by Democratic operatives to "suck it up" because so many other profound issues are at stake.
- David Mixner

Lynet scowled. I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.
- Gerald Morris

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.
- Vladimir Nabokov

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
- Ed Obrien

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'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
- Lauren Oliver

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
- Katherine Anne Porter

Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who'd read more if only their lips didn't get so tired.
- Markham Shaw Pyle

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.
- Maggie Stiefvater

I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows how (poor sucker) to put them together again. I'm tiredmy God, so tiredof leaving them all broken on the page with just 'The End' written underneath.
- J D Salinger

I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the fact that I'd seen, maybe better than anyone here, what dreams could do to you.
- Elizabeth Scott

People say that when a baby is crying the paternal grandmother will say, "The baby is crying, you should feed her," and the maternal grandmother will say, "Why is that baby crying so much, making her mom so tired?
- Kyung Sook Shin

I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to show up at work and truly enjoy every word you say.
- Ian Somerhalder

Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen free
Show yourself, you're scaring me
Come out, come out, where ever you are
You've taken this thing way too far
- Sonya Sones

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.
- Alberto Tomba

HE felt so tired that he felt almost like lying down there where he was in the warm sunshine just waiting until someone showed up but then he thought he did not know long a day was a summer day in England and how soon afternoon and evening would arrive and he didn't want to find himself on the street when it got dark.
- Rose Tremain

My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
- David Foster Wallace

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

I am so tired of the girl in the infirmary, I am so sick of the girl who cries wolf all the time - even though not one of those cries was ever a false alarm. Not one of my pleas was ever less than truly urgent because when it's all in your mind, there always IS a wolf.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

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