#tired

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old! ↗

— Stephen Richards

#aged #ageing #ageism #old-age #old-men

When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #death #dejan-stojanovic #dreams #eye

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#dreaming #dreamless #dreams #forgetting #sleep

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. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#explain #tiredness #dreams

The moon looked like melted mozzarella to my bleary and blurry vision. Was I tired, intoxicated, or in love? Or was I sober, asleep, and alone?
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#asleep #blurry #cheese #drunk #intoxicated

He was one of those men for whom all their fatigue went to their eyes in a sleepy, sexy kind of way. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#sexy-eyes #sleepy-eyes #tired #men

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #far-away #fertilize #home #literature

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#by the time #change #critics #during #everybody

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#easier #familiar #glorified #hours #listen

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,' 'round' and 'large.' I thought, 'Come on, we're fat.' ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#fat #i #large #like #plus