Mental Burnout Quotes

A mind too active is no mind at all.

The temptation to quit and start over infects every creative process I've ever been in. Frustration and boredom always fuel this self-doubt.

Your brain is cooked when you write hard for three or four hours.

My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.

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

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

A lot of times, fighters get not only physically tired but mentally exhausted. It's like a chess match - you're thinking of offense and defense at the same time. It's almost exhausting to think about it. After a while, you just go, 'I'll move my pawn.' A lot of times in fights, people get exhausted, and they're just sick of trying to focus on it.

I haven't got the energy to write now.

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

I'm just tired and bored with myself.

To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie.

I've beaten all contenders for 11 years. I'm not a robot; I'm fed up. My body's tired of it. I'm 36.

After 'Place Beyond the Pines,' honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I'd been reading, I just didn't understand it.

When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.

When I made my first decision, come hell or high water, that I would try to be a professional actor, I was burnt. Emotionally, I was burnt.

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

It's easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that's written about you... Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

It was like being given a maths problem when your brain's exhausted, and you know there's some far-off solution, but you can't work up the energy even to give it a go. Something in me just gave up.

Most people I knew had been crippled by their educations. Some were even dying spiritually.

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

How I've always felt is that the fun in gymnastics got taken away from me too soon.

That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.

I love the sport of tennis, but I sort of got a little bit away from what I really wanted to do. It became robotic for me, and that's not what I wanted. It's such an amazing sport, and I just really wanted to enjoy it, and I lost that enjoyment and that passion.

I was in the gym seven hours a day, six times a week, and Sunday was my day of rest. So there wasn't a lot of time that I had to myself, and obviously, that kind of ruined the joy of the sport.