tired quotes

: I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth.

- Edward Franklin, III Albee
  BESSIE1960  The Death of Bessie Smith.

Tired of knocking at Preferment's door.

- Matthew Arnold
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.35.

Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.

- Matthew Arnold
  New Poems,'The Last  Word'.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.

- F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
  The Great Gatsby, ch.4.

Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada d|a, cuando termina el suen‹  o, all | , donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas. Tired, above all, of being always with myself, of finding myself everyday, when the dream comes to an end, wherever I am, with the same old nose and with the same old legs.

- Oliverio Girondo
  Persuasio  n de los d|  as,'Cansancio' ('Fatigue').

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Remark, 20 Sep. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

- Emma Lazarus
  'The New Colossus', inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, NewYork harbour,1886.

I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the pots, tired of my mouth and my breasts tired of the cosmetics and the silks† I was tired of the gender of things.

- Anne ne  e Harvey Sexton
  Live or Die,'Consorting with Angels'.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor. In the end you have to be content with his common humanity.

- George Bernard Shaw
 The Bishop of Chelsea. Getting Married.

I'm less than two months old and I'm tired of living.

- E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
  Wilbur the pig. Charlotte'sWeb, ch.3.