Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Compassion Fatigue

I can't stand people who say they've got 'Africa fatigue.'

Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.

Walk a day in my shoes and you'd be irritable too.

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finish. I dinna like to scare children an I dinna like to flog men, and I've had to do both. I've two hundred English camped three miles away, and no idea what to do about them. I'm tired, I'm hungry, and I'm sore. If you've anything like womanly sympathy about ye, I could use a bit!

Worse than idle is compassion if it ends in tears and sighs.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

One grows out of pity when it's useless.

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.

I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired.