Top 100 I'm Tired Of Life Quotes

#1. lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can't tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. I'm so fucking tired of being alone. I was scared that he'd tell me to fucking leave. Because that means going back to a life I can't see for myself anymore.

Krista Ritchie

#3. I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Louise Penny

#4. A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she's tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life.

Pat Conroy

#5. I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything ...

Reinhold Messner

#6. Because if I'm going to spend at least seventy-five percent of my waking hours doing something, I want that something to have meaning. I am tired of wasting my time. I am starting to realize that I want my life to matter in every way that it can.

Julie Buxbaum

#7. What will life be like without her? I am dreadfully sad she is leaving. What if she just disappears; gets tired of all this trouble at home? What if she leaves me too? How heavy is a dresser when you're the only one pushing it against the door? I feel truly on my own.

Mira Bartok

#8. I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. I didn't want this life. They're were only so many times I could hear that I should never have been born, before I wished it to be true.

Rebecca Donovan

#9. I'm not scared of death, just tired. So fucking tired of being alive yet never fully breathing.

Jessica Sorensen

#10. I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.

Charles Bukowski

#12. The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#13. Our crosses are our rights ... Because life is not about me, because this world is not my home, because I'm tired of defending myself, and because the God of the universe is my Defender.

Jennie Allen

#14. I was always in complete control of everything in my life and I was just so tired of having to do that alone. Not that I wanted someone else to take over my life for me or tell me how to do things, but when you're the only one accountable for everything, that can get old.

Beth Harbison

#15. I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.

Ruth Rendell

#16. I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

Jennifer Estep

#17. I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.
Only end them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. I'm just tired of being disappointed by guys. I don't understand it. A breakup via text??!!" "I know. He's not playing the game of life on the same level as you. He's not even in the same sport. And it's better to know it now.

Sheri Fink

#19. I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running.

Marie Lu

#20. I think it may truly said that if you are tired of San Francisco, you are tired of life.

Charles McCabe

#21. I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma ... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?

Toni Morrison

#22. Our stories don't fit on a newspaper page. I'm tired of newspaper pages, Elisabeth. Life is a spiral, not a line.

Thomas Pletzinger

#23. My body is tired as worn out rug, but my brain (if i had) is always full of curiosity, jumping around for seeking new funs. If they could learn how to be cooperative each others, my life could be way easier ... sigh*

Hiroko Sakai

#24. I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I never get tired of talking to other people.

Marc Maron

#26. I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#27. People have challenged me all my life, told me I wasn't fast enough, wasn't smart enough, but you know what? No one's ever outworked me. My definition of tired and most people's definition of tired are two totally different things.

Jon Runyan

#28. I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.

Jennifer Niven

#29. I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#30. I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries."
"I'm tired of mysteries."
"Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

Neil Gaiman

#31. I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

Joshua Edward Smith

#32. I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Jackie Chan

#33. I was really going through a transition in my life. I was tired of feeling victimized by my career.

Sandra Bernhard

#34. I'm just tired of everything ... even of the echoes. There is nothing in my life but echoes ... echoes of lost hopes and dreams and joys. They're beautiful and mocking.

L.M. Montgomery

#35. I'm afraid to be alone, I'm afraid not to be alone. I'm afraid of what I am, what I'm not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don't want to stay at my job for the rest of my life, but I'm afraid to leave. And I'm just tired, you know? I'm just so tired of being afraid.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#36. I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

Joseph Barbera

#37. I was just tired of losing ... Life was passing me by.

Serena Williams

#38. I was tired of an outlaw's life.

Frank James

#39. Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life; the one thing I could do until the day I die and still feel like I haven't done enough.

Allison J. Kennedy

#40. We spend most of our life bleeding from a blade that cuts from the inside out. . . I'm tired of bleeding.

Michael Knost

#41. Someone who'll bring some normalcy into my life and help me stay in touch with reality. That is something I'm curious about. There are so many actors who are married to people from non-film backgrounds, and their marriages are successful. I'm tired of dating actresses.

Shahid Kapoor

#42. I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#43. I'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

John Ciardi

#44. I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say

Albert Camus

#45. I made love to her in the sweetness of the weary morning. Then, two tired angels of some kind, hung-up forlornly in an LA shelf, having found the closest and most delicious thing in life together, we fell asleep and slept till late afternoon.

Jack Kerouac

#46. I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.

Ron Clarke

#47. I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.

Tennessee Williams

#48. I probably always will be. But I've been mad all my life, and I finally figured out that I couldn't keep carrying that with me. It's too heavy and I'm too tired. Time will take care of it, like it does everything else.

Ayana Mathis

#49. It wasn't that I was tired of life, really - just my own. Other people's lives seemed perfectly worthwhile, and only the logistical difficultly of assuming them and the likelihood of being caught kept me from concocting some sort of swap.

James Lileks

#50. Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings typically involved prearranged surrenders to the FBI, in the hopes of earning lenient sentences.

Brendan I. Koerner

#51. I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.

Carrie Brownstein

#52. Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.

I open my mouth
and dust spills out
instead of feelings.

Dust, and the yellow
wings of moths,
and brittle paper,

scrawled over
with riddles that
lack solutions.

Gabriel Gadfly

#53. I know I'm tired of thinking about what I should have done yesterday. I know I'm just tired. If I knew what to do with my life, how to fix it up, I would have done it a long time ago. You can't dig that? You think I want to live like I'm somebody's throwaway?

Walter Dean Myers

#54. Maybe I'm tired," he said. "Maybe I'm tired of picking up life in bits and fistfuls and little drawstring bags. When you get to be as old as I am, there's an appeal in the idea of seeing some business through from start to finish.

Michael Chabon

#55. I just want to make sure Mama. Sometimes I don't even know what I want. A lot of times I'm just tired."
Mama reached up and smoothed Liza's curls away from her face. "Well darlin', that's the sign of a life being lived. I think we're all tired when we're giving it our best.

Gwenn Wright

#56. I grew tired of life.
Life is the dash between one problem
To another.
But when I started to love those problems with care,
life offered me joy and more to care and share.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?

James Patterson

#58. But I am tired of everyone being gone, and I am tired of everything that has tired me out for the last five years of my life.

Daisy Whitney

#59. I languish around in my life, never quite doing what I set out to do. I am tired of being a silver medalist, and tired of fighting uphill battles that I only sort of win.

Kim Gruenenfelder

#60. I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I'll sing.

Amy Harmon

#61. I am tired of tripping over these Cracks in the Sidewalk,these cracks in my life.

Lillis Lish

#62. I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.

Parul Wadhwa

#63. I'm tired of living my life like a bad movie.

Riley Mackenzie

#64. I guess
we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of
people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.

Todd McFarlane

#65. I was tired of being me.

Rachel Ward

#66. I am tired of fighting, of hitting and being hit. This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. It's the upside-down nature of life.

Lauren Oliver

#67. At the bottom of the poster was the famous Samuel Johnson quote I've now heard repeated, mangled, and paraphrased many times: When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Craig Taylor

#68. He saw her red eyes filled with tears of anger.
"Tell me why this rage?" He asked holding her in his arms. "Why do you fence for yourself so much?
She sighed and muttered, "Because all I really want is nothing but to be proved wrong.

Sanhita Baruah

#69. Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

William Faulkner

#70. I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,
I am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me.

T. S. Eliot

#71. It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

Akshay Kumar

#72. I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It's hard because people get angry at you, but I've got a life to live too.

Usher

#73. There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

Robin Williams

#74. I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#75. I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am tired of lying. I tell it because I don't want people to think that I have fucked up my life over and over just because I was in a bad mood.

Robert Goolrick

#76. I don't like going out that much. I'm kind of an old lady. After it's 11, I'm like, 'Don't these kids ever get tired?' When I'm out, I think about my couch. Like, 'It would be awesome to be on it right now. I bet there's an episode of Dance Moms on.

Jennifer Lawrence

#77. 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

#78. In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography
proper work for tired artists
but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies
they know better.

Arthur Miller

#79. Everything seems to be catching up with me at once. My failures. My cowardice. My stupidity. Sometimes I'm just so tired of this life.

Tahereh Mafi

#80. I seem to spend a minimum of eight hours a day in transit of some sort or another ... that's eight hours of your life gone. People always ask if I suffer from jet lag, but it's kinda become really normal for me ... Although the jet lag does become a factor and you're pretty much always tired.

Skrillex

#81. I was tired of just letting things happen to me and then feeling bad about them.

Stephen King

#82. She was tired these days because she was having job trouble too; her trouble meant she did not know how she could be useful in her life. Dad's job trouble was he had too much to do with his life. Sometimes I just wanted them to even it out but I couldn't think of how.

Aimee Bender

#83. I get kind of tired of the "But it's your life!" attitude about memoir. I wrote. I engaged in artistic production. I made a piece of art. Why the preciousness or mystical unicorns around "memoir"? I'm curious how you feel about it just now.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#84. I'm very tired of staring out into your vacant faces looking back at me. Wanting to fill your empty lives with humor you couldn't possibly think of yourself ... Good evening!

Bill Hicks

#85. I'm so tired of pretending like my life isn't perfect and bitchin' and just winning every second, I'm not perfect, and bitching and just delivering the goods at every fucking turn. Because look what I'm dealing with, man - I'm dealing with fools and trolls. I'm dealing with soft targets.

Charlie Sheen

#86. There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it

Abbi Glines

#87. You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind.
I know you hate Americans, but
I never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesn't matter to me what country you're from. You women are fucking stupid, and I'm tired of saving you. All of you.

Allie Burke

#88. I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.

Sarah Kane

#89. Because I'm shooting 'The New Normal' and 'Real Housewives of Atlanta' at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I'm extremely tired.

NeNe Leakes

#90. I'm really tired of people saying what is lost in translation. Look at what you gain. You gain three universes worth of books. It's worth it to lose something in translation, if you can get a hundred more texts that are going to change your life.

Arshia Sattar

#91. I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why.

Tupac Shakur

#92. I don't care if it hurts, I'm tired of lies and all these games, I've reached a point in life, and no longer can I be this way, don't come crying to me, I too have shed my share of tears. I'm moving on, yes I'm grooving on.

Ziggy Marley

#93. I'm sick and tired of life with no desire. I don't want a flame, I want a fire.

Matthew West

#94. I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

Linda Fairstein

#95. Won't you come with me she said, there's plenty of room in my iron bed. You're looking cold and tired and a little hmna. I know I'm not part of the life you had planned, but I think once your body feels my hand your mind will change and your heart will lose its pain.

Cowboy Junkies

#96. I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I'm tired of drowning.

Amanda Grace

#97. I consider myself a modern-day dad, where I still got rock'n'roll in me, but yet I take being a parent and relationships very seriously in life. I'm tired of the image of the father as a fat, beer-chugging, stupid guy. That image has to change. I'm changing it, baby, one city at a time.

Jim Breuer

#98. I'm tired of hearing about how complicated your life is. Life is not that complicated. Either you like someone or you don't. Either you are true to them and your heart or you aren't. Pretty simple, actually.

Courtney Cole

#99. I'm tired of my life and my mind wants to die.

Sarah Kane

#100. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.

Amy Poehler

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