Tired Quotes
2494 Tired quotes by 1688 unique authors
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These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's…
— Michael Cunningham
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Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your…
— Patrick Süskind
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Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that…
— Douglas Adams
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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake…
— Dave Eggers
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
— Jack Kerouac
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This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.
— Rumi
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She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that…
— Cecelia Ahern
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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…
— J D Salinger
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... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go…
— Jostein Gaarder
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Don't talk to me. I'm tired and grumpy and I'll probably make fun of you.
— Ann Brashares
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And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric…
— Charles Bukowski
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I want someone who will adore me so much that they cannot even walk past me without touching me in some way. I want someone…
— Jane Green
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They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed...
— T.E. Lawrence
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I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine…
— Harper Lee
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She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had…
— Margaret Atwood
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I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk…
— Jon Katz
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
— Louisa May Alcott
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I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to…
— Clive Barker
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I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
— Bill Hicks
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When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I…
— Francis Spufford
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It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar…
— Paul Newman
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