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85 Quotes about Being Tired in 6 Categories

Unfortunately, tiredness is a daily affliction for many people. If you are also looking for quotes that describe your constant state, then you’re in the right place. Here you will find words of wisdom, quotes and sayings about being tired for every occasion. Additionally, we have tips for combating tiredness.

Tiredness can be an annoying affliction. Even in winter, the season of cold and dark, we are often exhausted and weak. But apart from the lack of vitamin D that winter brings, there are also many other causes worth mentioning that can leave you feeling exhausted and burnt out.

"I’m Tired": Funny Quotes for a Good Laugh

"I’m Tired": Funny Quotes for a Good Laugh

In our first list, you will find funny sayings and cheeky quotes about tiredness. You can use these daily to make your friends or work colleagues laugh and thus feel more awake, or even to crack yourself up.

  1. On a scale of 1–tired, today I’m Sleeping Beauty.
    (Unknown)
  2. I’m so tired, even my tiredness is tired.
    (Unknown)
  3. I get tired from just thinking of everything I have to do.
    (Unknown)
  4. My days are somehow backwards. I wake up tired and go to bed wide awake.
    (Unknown)
  5. Don’t give up on your dreams. Keep sleeping.
    (Unknown)
  6. I think I must be a cat. 11 hours of sleep and still tired…
    (Unknown)
  7. I don’t snore, I dream I’m a motorbike.
    (Unknown)
  8. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
    (Jules Renard, French writer, 1864–1910)
  9. Everything would be better if people could hibernate. You wake up and bam, double the bank balance, well rested with a bikini body.
    (Unknown)
  10. Too early, too tired, too little coffee… Everything else is in the police report.
    (Unknown)
  11. I haven’t been as tired as I am today since at least yesterday.
    (Unknown)
  12. I feel like I’m already tired tomorrow.
    (Unknown)
  13. I almost drowned while yawning in the shower on a Monday morning – living life on the edge!
    (Unknown)
  14. I am so tired. I must have a yawning deficiency.
    (Unknown)
  15. Being an adult means always being tired and telling others you’re always tired so they can tell you that they’re tired too.
    (Unknown)
  16. I’ve reached the age where happy hour means a taking a nap.
    (Unknown)
  17. If being tired grew muscles, I’d pull trucks.
    (Unknown)
  18. I don’t want to sleep like a baby. I want to sleep like my husband.
    (Unknown)
  19. I’m not saying I’m tired, but if someone pushed me right now, I would stay lying down.
    (Unknown)
  20. The coffee is broken! I’m still tired!
    (Unknown)
  21. I’m always tired. Except for when I’m asleep, then it’s all good.
    (Unknown)
  22. I thought I was just really tired, but it’s been 5 years so I guess this is how I look now.
    (Unknown)
  23. There are 365 ways to be tired. I know them all.
    (Unknown)
  24. When you just want to sleep, but your head is installing 95 updates and won’t let you skip them.
    (Unknown)
  25. I finally got 8 hours of sleep. It took me four days, but whatever.
    (Unknown)
  26. Today I fell asleep while putting on my sweater because it was dark for a moment. Need I say more about my current state?
    (Unknown)
  27. The bags under my eyes are Prada.
    (Unknown)
  28. I am not an early bird or a night ow. I am some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.
    (Unknown)
  29. My outfit of the day: draped in a blanket.
    (Unknown)
  30. I wouldn’t say the dark circle under my eyes are big today. But a panda did just whistle at me!
    (Unknown)
  31. Don’t give up on your dreams… Keep sleeping.
    (Unknown)
  32. I think I must be an iPhone, my battery is pretty much always empty.
    (Unknown)
  33. I’d like to be Sleeping Beauty. But without a prince. I want to sleep.
    (Unknown)
  34. The well-loved sleep left us much too early. Today, in his honor, we wear our eyelids at half-mast.
    (Unknown)
  35. I’m just going to have breakfast now. That way, I can sleep for longer in the morning.
    (Unknown)
  36. Conserving my energy isn’t lazy, it’s smart – like saving up for a rainy day!
    (Unknown)

Quotes about Being Broken and Tired

Quotes about Being Broken and Tired

If your battery is always flat and you are all out of energy, you can emphasize that with the quotes in the list below. Some of the quotes might even liven you up somewhat.

  1. “Being tired” has become part of my personality.
    (Unknown)
  2. I tested positive for tired.
    (Unknown)
  3. Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
    (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835–1910)
  4. 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, English poet, 1770–1850)
  5. Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.
    (Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, 121–180)
  6. Many, my children, are the tears I’ve wept, and threaded many a maze of weary thought.
    (Sophocles, Greek tragedian, 497/6 B.B–406/5 B.B)
  7. Others are as tired of themselves as you are. Let each one learn to bore himself.
    (James Joyce, Irish novelist, 1882–1941)
  8. I don’t have time to be tired.
    (William I, former German emperor, 1797–1888)
  9. The word “tired” describes my daily mood.
    (Unknown)

Tired of Life: Quotes about Burnout

Tired of Life: Quotes about Burnout

If life is a constant struggle for you, it can be pretty exhausting. People who are overwhelmed by life’s daily requirements can easily become burned out. Perhaps the following quotes will describe how you’re currently feeling.

  1. Sleep doesn’t help when your soul is tired.
    (Unknown)
  2. I am often tired, a pleasant tiredness in which existence flows around me like mild air, gentle, slumberous.
    (Hedwig Dohm, German writer, 1831–1919)
  3. Tired isn’t a state. It’s a way of life.
    (Unknown)
  4. One is not tired of life, but of oneself.
    (Elisabeth zu Wied, German writer, 1843–1916)
  5. You will burn, and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
    (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, 1821–1881)
  6. Quiet, a word with a wonderful ring, which only someone who has been tired to the core feels properly.
    (Albert Bitzius, Swiss writer, 1797–1854)
  7. Life is one long process of getting tired.
    (Samuel Butler, English writer, 1797–1854)
  8. The worst feeling is when you cannot go on and don’t even want to go on but you must.
    (Unknown)
  9. Sleep doesn’t help when it’s your soul that’s tired.
    (Unknown)
  10. No expectations. No disappointments.
    (Unknown)
  11. No matter how long I sleep, the tiredness never goes away. I am tired from “living,” tired from “fighting,” tired from “enduring.”
    (Unknown)
  12. Some days, you’re just tired from needing to be stronger than you feel.
    (Unknown)
  13. I’m tired from the war that is only taking place in my head.
    (Unknown)
  14. Maybe it’s not the lack of sleep that makes people constantly so tired. Maybe it’s the people.
    (Unknown)
  15. You get up and you carry on. Day after day. But nobody sees how much strength that takes.
    (Unknown)
  16. One of the hardest battles is the one between what you feel and what you know.
    (Unknown)
  17. There are days when you feel the tiredness of a whole life.
    (Unknown)
  18. Even the strongest person will tire if he moves mountains for someone that isn’t prepared to even lift a stone for him.
    (Unknown)

Long-term tiredness from life is also often an indication of mental illness. If you have been feeling bad for a long time and you have no motivation left to get out of bed, you should seek professional help.

Psychotherapists can help you, and even your family doctor can be your first contact point.

Quotes about Being Tired from Work

Quotes about Being Tired from Work

People who regularly work early or late shifts know better than anyone what it means to be tired. Wildly varying working hours means they have no proper sleep schedule and their bodies easily become tired and weary.

But workers in nine-to-five jobs also often experience tiredness. Whichever line of work, you can relate our quotes about tiredness from work to any job.

  1. No matter whether you’re tired, ugly or rich, we are all equal at the coffee machine!
    (Unknown)
  2. Working early just means tiring early.
    (Unknown)
  3. There’s nothing nicer than getting to continue sleeping when someone else has to work.
    (Unknown)
  4. “Doctor, Doctor! I’m talking in my sleep.” – “Is that really so bad?” – “Yes, the whole office laughs at me!”
    (Unknown)
  5. Of course I’m awake. I just don’t look it.
    (Unknown)
  6. My life right now only consists of: work, couch, bed.
    (Unknown)
  7. This work makes me more tired than a good night’s sleep.
    (Unknown)
  8. What’s your dream job? Well, in my dreams, I don’t work.
    (Unknown)

Quotes about Fatigue

Quotes about Fatigue

In this chapter, we have gathered some wise quotes around the topic of fatigue. Among them, you will find advice and words of wisdom from famous poets and thinkers. They work great as a WhatsApp status.

  1. What makes us tired is the work we leave undone, not the work we do.
    (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Moravian-Austrian writer, 1930–1916)
  2. Most people have no idea what kind of pace they could achieve if they could just rub the sleep from their eyes.
    (Christian Morgenstern, German poet, 1871–1914)
  3. You can still go far when you’re tired.
    (French proverb)
  4. When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
    (Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher, 1844–1900)
  5. Blessed are those who are too busy during the day and too tired at night to be worry.
    (Unknown)
  6. Honest is he who does not pass off his laziness for tiredness.
    (German proverb)

I Am So Tired: Quotes about Insomnia

I Am So Tired: Quotes about Insomnia

Are you unable to relax at night and simply cannot fall asleep? Then you will certainly be able to identity with the quotes about sleepless nights below. Here are some insomnia quotes:

  1. People who spend too long occupying themselves with their problems at night are too tired to solve them the next day.
    (Unknown)
  2. Only few sleep when they are tired. Most do it when they are expected to.
    (Unknown)
  3. Dear head, please stop overthinking so much at night, I need to get to sleep.
    (Unknown)
  4. Since I can never sleep at night, counting sheep has become my main activity. I am now the shepherd with the world’s biggest herd of sheep.
    (Unknown)
  5. The problems of the day make me sleepless at night.
    (Unknown)
  6. The things we don’t say eat us up at night.
    (Unknown)
  7. Everything you push to the side during the day resurfaces at night.
    (Unknown)
  8. No day starts without sleep.
    (Unknown)

Tips Against Being Tired

Tips Against Being Tired

You are certainly familiar with the feeling: you’re sitting in the office in front of your computer screen and once again, you are on the brink of nodding off.

You had a bad night, you hardly slept and are simply exhausted.

Unfortunately, you can’t catch up on sleep, but there are some tips and tricks that can at least provide you with some relief in the short term and help you get through the day.

Consume Drinks with Caffeine

Consume Drinks with Caffeine

Let’s start with the obvious: caffeine keeps us awake! So drinks that contain caffeine like coffee, energy drinks or maté are real lifesavers. The high caffeine concentration in these drinks quickly ensures that we feel more alert. It really works well.

However, you shouldn’t overdo it with coffee and the like, as too much caffeine can have the opposite effect – that is, insomnia and concentration problems.

Have Cold Showers

A cold shower can truly have an invigorating effect. The cold water causes you to take deeper breaths and increases your oxygen intake as well as your blood circulation.

Get Some Fresh Air

Get Some Fresh Air

Fresh air provides a top-notch kick of freshness. If, for example, you work in a small room or in a large office crowded with many people, letting some air in once in a while will stop you from nodding off.

This is because the oxygen level drops after a while in these kinds of spaces. Fresh air will provide new oxygen. Going for a walk in chilly air can also have an invigorating effect.

Drink Enough Water

The body needs at least 1.5 liters of water on average each day. If you don’t consume enough fluids, your blood will become viscous and your brain will work more slowly.

On the other hand, water helps your body to stay hydrated. Ideally, you should drink a half liter of water first thing in the morning to wake yourself up.

Take a Power Nap

Take a Power Nap

A power nap can truly work miracles. But only if you do it the right way.

In order to gain energy from your short nap, it should really not last any longer than 30 minutes.

Otherwise, your body will fall into a deep sleep phase and your “power nap” will leave you even sleepier than before.

Remember to Take Breaks

When we spend a long time concentrating on something, it also makes us tired. This is because your brain requires an above-average amount of energy to do so. Short recovery breaks help your brain regenerate and thus provide more energy overall.

Get Enough Movement

Get Enough Movement

Regularly exercising is not only good for your health, it also increases your energy levels.

Exercise makes us more alert and fitter, as the movement increases our heart rate.

Of course, you won’t always have time for a full workout in your everyday life.

But even standing up from your chair and doing some stretches or taking the stairs instead of the lift can make you feel more awake. You should also get up and move around shortly after waking. This new stimulus you send to your brain will “wake it up again.”

Chew Gum

Chewing gum increases your heart rate and blood circulation in your brain. Ideally, you should always have a pack of chewing gum with you on long car journeys.

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