Dead Tired Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Cotton rows crisscross the world
And dead-tired nights of yearning
Thunderbolts on leather strops
And all my body burning
Sugar cane reach up to God
And every baby crying
Shame a blanket of my night
And all my days are dying

Maya Angelou

#3. There was nothing the matter with them except they were dead tired. It was not the dead-tiredness that comes through brief and excessive effort, from which recovery is a matter of hours; but it was the dead-tiredness that comes through the slow and prolonged strength drainage of months of toil.

Jack London

#4. The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink.

Ilona Andrews

#5. Love is: Bringing a blanket when someone's asleep. Giving the last piece of food to the other person. Staying awake to listen to them when you are dead tired. Hugging them tightly when they need it the most.

Carlos Salinas

#6. He was dead tired, thanks to which, whatever emotions he might have had, simply came and went without gaining a foothold. The Rat began to relax and lay down his empty head on the mingled sounds of the waves and the deejay until sleep crept over him.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I'll go sleep on the couch," James said. "No, you won't," Poppy said firmly. She flopped on the bed beside him. "You're dead tired. And I know I'm safe with you." James grinned without moving his arm. "Because I'm dead tired?

L.J.Smith

#8. Every morning, when I'm really, really tired ... when I'm dead tired is when I feel most alive.

Logan Browning

#9. I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

Gertrude Stein

#10. Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all! ... The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

Vivien Leigh

#11. It is not so bad. It is just, when I come home so tired, and then he ... I do not enjoy it. My ... my marital duties."
"Oh, my God ... He makes you do chores?!?

Joss Whedon

#12. Erik: Are you very tired?
Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.
Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

Gaston Leroux

#13. I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, The only people who never hurt are dead.

Jim Butcher

#14. Her eyes were tired, but we're seniors. All seniors have dead eyes.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#15. How do ou feel about your prophesied destiny? Imust know, if I am to compose this epic."
"Feel?" Rand looked around the camp, at the Jindo moving among the tents. How many of them would be dead before he was done? "Tired. I feel tired.

Robert Jordan

#16. Murtry swung first, so technically, that was self-defense. And if I'd wanted him dead, don't you think he'd be dead? It's not like I quit hitting him because I was tired.

James S.A. Corey

#17. The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

Liz Phair

#18. There's no point in beating a dead horse. The horse will still be dead and you'll just be the tired asshole who beat a carcass.

Cheryl McIntyre

#19. As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.

Lynn Coady

#20. I thought you were dead," Bera breathed.
Cadsuane sniffed irritably. "I am growing tired of hearing that. The next imbecile I hear it from is going to yelp for a week.

Robert Jordan

#21. Mom's already dead!" I yelled at him. "Who the hell do you think you're saving?"
And he just gave me his Sad, Tired look. It's one of the three he's got, the other two being Pissed Off and Blised Out on ESPN.

Barry Lyga

#22. Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

Erwin Rommel

#23. 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

#24. It is June. I am tired of being brave.

from "The Truth The Dead Know

Anne Sexton

#25. I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy; but having leave, as a high treat, to sit up until my mother came home from spending the evening at a neighbour's, I would rather have died upon my post (of course) than have gone to bed. I

Charles Dickens

#26. Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.

Jessie Burton

#27. They're too tired for bathing, but they're not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams.

Libba Bray

#28. Every night, no matter what has happened during the day, no matter if I am torn and bloodied or so bone-tired I wish I were dead, I look up at the stars and I give each star a brother's name or a sister's face. I will not sleep until I remember every one. The stars will burn out before I forget.

Cassandra Clare

#29. There is no significance. I just got tired. Tired of being angry. Tired of thinking about dead ends, and everything that isn't or might not be enough.

Rainbow Rowell

#30. No one grows up, they just get tired. Or few indeed. No stopping for dead animals on the turnpike. Too dangerous.

Jim Harrison

#31. Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

Robert Breault

#32. I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

Charlaine Harris

#33. Don't count me out ... I have been built and strengthened by life's battles. When you think I'm tired; I'm just getting started. When you think I'm dead; that's when I'm most alive.

Steve Maraboli

#34. They told me,Heraclitus,they told me
you are dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear
and bitter tears to shed ...
I wept when i remembered how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking,and sent him down the sky.

Callimachus

#35. O Trade, O Trade! Would thou wert dead!The time needs heart - 'tis tired of head.

Sidney Lanier

#36. And you used to be everything to me
And now you're tired of fighting
Tired of fighting
Fighting yourself

Muse

#37. The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!

Pope Benedict XVI

#38. Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead."
"He's not dead; just very tired.

Libba Bray

#39. Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is tired and must sleep, And hungry and must graze And so abets the shining Fleet Till it is out of gaze.

Emily Dickinson