Tired Quotes

• When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Past, Long Ago

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• Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

  Hafez

  Faith, Rip, Inspiration

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• The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

  Guo Xiang

  Change, Years, People

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• I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

  Hayley Williams

  Struggle, Trying, World

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  We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Writing

  "Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

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• We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

  Charles Stanley

  Strength, Time, Prayer

  Charles Stanley (2002). “How to Listen to God”, p.58, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

  Newt Gingrich

  Stay Strong, Perseverance, Determination

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• What we need is love without getting tired.

  Mother Teresa

  Needs, Getting Tired

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.22, New World Library

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, Athlete

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Sleep, Insomnia, Standing On The Edge

  "Song: 'I Will Remember You'". 1995.

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• It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wisdom, Mature

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.224, Penguin

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• I don't stop when I'm tired. I only stop when I'm done.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Loving Life, Done, I'm Tired

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• I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

  Bill Maher

  People, Might, Rearranging

  "Bill Maher: The Golden Goose Special". TV Movie, 1997.

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• It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the shortest route to get it. They cleave to the things of this world as if assured they will never die, and yet rush to snatch any that comes within their reach, as if they expected to stop living before relishing them. Death steps in, in the end, and stops them, before they have grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Watches, World, Might

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

  Jules Renard

  Running, Motivation, Business

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• Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.

  Dan Castellaneta

  People, Feel Good, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home. Night is coming. It is your bedtime, child of earth. Come; you're tired. Lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep. Sleep well. The day is gone. Stars shine in the canopy of eternity."

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Death, Stars, Children

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• I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Wish, Isms

  "Reruns: Yogi Berra on Hedge Funds". blog.commonwealth.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Health, Sick World

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  Emma Lazarus

  Civilization, Urbanization, Giving

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• I know you're tired but come, this is the way.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Way, Sufi

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.166, Penguin UK

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Sarcastic

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 4 (1891).Wilde used the same words in A Woman of No Importance (1893).

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• A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Fun, Lunch, Parent

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  No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.

  Megan Fox

  Hurt, Lying, Waiting

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• Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Eye, Woe Unto

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.169, The Floating Press

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