Emotional Drain Quotes

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Say goodbye to the energy vampires in your life (the negative souls who steal your enthusiasm).

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

It is an appalling thing to feel all one possesses drain away.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

She's a sort of human vampire-bat

Just a tiny red sliver remains in the battery icon. I wish humans came with the same kind of indicator . . . it would make things much easier. You would know how to deal with every person on the planet, and I’d always be in the red.

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

The madness of depression is, generally speaking, the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained.

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Negativity just sucks the life out of somebody.

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

All writers are vampires.

Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.

Dialysis is horrible and left me so tired. I couldn't do it any more, it takes so much out of you. By the end I was tired of being tired. I could sleep 11, 12 or 13 hours a day and still be absolutely knackered.

Self-pity dries up our sympathy for others.

It's hard to be mad, it's a lot of energy.

Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an emotionally draining experience. I saw and met patients who were abandoned by their families, and there is complete sense of hopelessness. Ever since, I have been a supporter for the need for funding and awareness of palliative care.

When I have to do an emotional scene, I sometimes feel drained right before doing it.

I don't enjoy being interviewed. I feel like it exhausts a lot of my energy. I feel empty after.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

I'm fine watching stuff on tape, to me casting is the most painful part of the whole process, it's like going on a horribly awkward date every five minutes for eight hours, and people come in and they'll be someone good but they're not right, and you want to tell them they're good, but it sounds like BS, and they're looking at your face to see how they did, what adjustments they need, and it's just so emotionally draining, and it goes on and on.