“[…], indeed nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.”

“having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.”

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.”

“The person who does not know how to put up with others should retire into himself, if indeed he can suffer even himself.”

“Poor tired Tim! It’s sad for him
He lags the long bright morning through,
Ever so tired of nothing to do.”

“Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.”

“If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.”

“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”

“If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.”