Exhaustion Quote by Janet Fitch Download Open image “Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched…” — Janet Fitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exhaustion Giddy Lovers Sleep
Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping. — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.” — William Lavender Copy Share Image
“Not knowing what to make of it, he admired her longer. The fact that she’d chosen his bed couldn’t be a coincidence, so he… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“What bothered her most was the ceaseless movement of her mind, so locked in activity that it allowed her no rest, not even in… — Henry Emmons Copy Share Image
As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.” — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. — John Irving Copy Share Image
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol -… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's amazing if… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory,… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image
