Tired

Christian Krohg, "Tired" (1885)

Tired is a lack of energy, typically caused by aspects of normal living. [See Fatigue for tiredness not caused by normal living.]

Quotes

• I am so tired of waiting,
  Aren’t you,
  For the world to become good
  And beautiful and kind?
  Let us take a knife
  And cut the world in two –
  And see what worms are eating
  At the rind.
  • Langston Hughes, "Tired," The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel (Vintage Classics: 1995), p. 135

See also

• Sleep