Welcome to Tired Quotes, a curated collection of quotes and sayings that capture the essence of exhaustion, weariness, and the human experience of feeling tired. We all face moments in life when fatigue sets in, whether it’s from the daily grind, emotional challenges, or the pursuit of our dreams. In those moments, words have the power to resonate deeply, offering solace, empathy, and sometimes even a spark of motivation. Here, we have gathered a selection of thought-provoking and relatable tired quotes that you can use for inspiration, reflection, or simply to share with others who may be going through similar experiences. Scroll down to discover these quotes, and feel free to use them to create your own visual representations, add stylish fonts, or simply find solace in the shared sentiments of tired souls around the world.
Now, without further ado, let’s explore the world of tiredness through the words of poets, philosophers, writers, and everyday people who have beautifully expressed their feelings about exhaustion, burnout, and the strength it takes to keep moving forward. Enjoy the collection and find your own source of inspiration or comfort in the midst of weariness.
I don’t want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me. Lil Wayne
I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question. Yogi Berra
I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. Shaquille O’Neal
You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die. John Lennon
Since Bin Laden’s death, many Americans have decided that our job in Afghanistan is done. They see a victory in the counterterrorism campaign, and are tired of the corruption, confusion and dysfunction of the nation-building campaign. Eric Greitens
It’s important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder – don’t be tired about it. Angela Bassett
My election only proves that the citizens are tired of the experienced politicians who over the past 28 years created a country of opportunities – opportunities to steal, bribe and loot. Volodymyr Zelensky
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me. Taylor Swift
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I’m tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get. Dana Plato
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus
On a day when you’re tired, it’s important to just say good morning to everyone so they’re kind of aware that it’s gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that. Lindsay Lohan
In Louisiana, you can drive when you’re 15 – you could get your driving permit. I remember, during driver’s ed, I fell asleep at the wheel one day. I was tired. The guy shook me and switched and said he was getting into the driver’s seat. I didn’t fail, so I guess you can fall asleep occasionally. It’s Louisiana. Theo Von
We always make so many excuses for ourselves – ‘I’m so busy, I’m so tired, I don’t want to do it.’ You know? ‘I’m passionate about it, but I’m not going to be the person that changes things.’ Why do we tell ourselves that? We totally could. There are so many people who are making so much change just because they’re passionate. Cameron Boyce
One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus. Eugene H. Peterson
I didn’t start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I’ll be around to enjoy it. Niecy Nash
I had real big boobs, and I just got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat, ‘Oh, Lord’. I’d carry a Tide stick everywhere I go. My back was sore, so it was time to have a reduction. Wanda Sykes
Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! Charles Atlas
I’m tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. Rosa Parks
I’m tired of living the vanilla, non-offensive life. I think that’s a really sad way to spend my life, and I lived it like that because that’s what I was brought up in, taught to not rock the ship. Dan Reynolds
I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don’t realize this until you’re getting sober but the reason why you’re depressed all the time is it’s the drugs that are depressing you. Steven Adler
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, Jr.
I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired. Louis Farrakhan
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
To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie. Megan Rapinoe
I was tired of an outlaw’s life. Frank James
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
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. Chief Joseph
Sometimes, you get tired of fighting. I think you just sort of come to this realization that yes, that you will get tired, but that doesn’t mean that you can give up the fight. Jesmyn Ward
I’m so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women’s feelings. Sam Kinison
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
In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun. Nostradamus
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged. Umberto Eco
I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and it’ll carry through the day. Ray Dalio
Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it. Mary Tyler Moore
A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves. Steven Biko
It’s been a long comeback. Things were pretty dark for me. But I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me. I hadn’t learned to make the distinction between God and my parents. But there’s a peace now. In the end, I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. William Hurt
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. Martin H. Fischer
Tired minds don’t plan well. Sleep first, plan later. Walter Reisch
My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I’d say: ‘Leave me alone. Don’t push so much.’ Laurence Fishburne
I’m sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual. Gavin Newsom
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it’s so petty. Imelda Marcos
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. Will Durant
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. Samuel Johnson
I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired. Mae West
Views are overrated; it’s light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami’s South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room – it never gets old. Michael Graves
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich
I’m tired and nervous and I’m in America. Here you don’t know that you live. Greta Garbo
A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that. Kathleen Turner
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. William Tecumseh Sherman
At the end of the day, I’m a person. I have feelings. I get tired. I get sad. Summer Walker
There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all! Ben Stiller
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in. Rosa Parks
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
I’m tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. Vance Havner
It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health. Joyce Meyer
Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I’ve gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn’t make you feel fatigued. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I’m tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become. Johnny Weir
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe. Anne Bronte
America is sick and tired of spending hour upon hour sitting in their automobile trying to get to work, trying to get kids to school, trying to get to a doctor’s appointment. Greg Abbott
Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. Darryl F. Zanuck
I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams. Christina Milian
I think if I’d have been an actor who didn’t care, I’d have less gray hair, and I’d be a lot less tired. Alex O’Loughlin
I’m tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code. Michael Moore
Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered. Marilyn Monroe
It’s a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired – you quit when the gorilla is tired. Robert Strauss
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth
It doesn’t matter how tired I am; I will always still be happy. As soon as you go onstage, you get adrenaline. You hear the crowd: they’re screaming your name. They have posters. The energy gives you energy. Martin Garrix
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland – I used to be dead tired when I got home at night. Norman Wisdom
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends. Tabatha Coffey
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around. William Howard Taft
All parts of the human body get tired eventually – except the tongue. Konrad Adenauer
Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler
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 day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder. Al Gore
I get really tired of hearing of all these old rockers whine and complain about how hard life on the road can be. Just stop if you don’t like it. I don’t think of it as work. I love it all. Edgar Winter
The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left. Thich Nhat Hanh
My most visceral childhood memory is getting home from hockey. Much of our family time revolved around hockey, and it rains a lot in Perth, and we’d get home tired and wet in our tracksuits, and the smell I’d hold in my nose is of mother’s vegetable soup. Tim Minchin
It’s so funny, because right now I’m very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I’m probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now. Gillian Anderson
My bed isn’t made, I’m tired, I haven’t slept well for two weeks. I haven’t been laid in a month. I don’t have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest. Layne Staley
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, ‘Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.’ She’s got a baseball bat and yelling, ‘You want a piece of me?’ Robin Williams
Racism is ignorant. And it’s stupid. And it’s old. And it’s played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? ‘Let’s all get along’ – I’m so tired of that damn sentence, but it’s true. Queen Latifah
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
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
I got tired of going to the barber to keep my fade together, so I just cut it all off. Andre Braugher
I never finished the ‘Large Glass’ because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got interested in something else; also, I was tired. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word ‘finish’ implies an acceptance of traditional methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them. Marcel Duchamp
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow – of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body – has been pleasant to dwell upon. Solomon Northup
Jon Moxley – great performer. I’m sure he’s a nice guy. But at the end of the day, I think people are sick and tired of him, you know, being the captain of the ship. Maxwell Jacob Friedman
Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired. Mark Twain
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
There ain’t nothin’ to dyin’, really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away. James Dickey
Writing is like travelling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. Langston Hughes
Laws are the terms by which independent and isolated men united to form a society, once they tired of living in a perpetual state of war where the enjoyment of liberty was rendered useless by the uncertainty of its preservation. They sacrificed a portion of this liberty so that they could enjoy the remainder in security and peace. Cesare Beccaria
You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals. Mary of Teck
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
We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we’re doing is the music that people want, that people love. Maluma
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde
I am someone who can’t hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don’t carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that’s the only way to be happy and peaceful. Deepika Padukone
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. Salvador Dali
