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Drained Quotes

Honest lines about running on empty and needing to recover.

These quotes describe being drained in very different settings, from an emotionally heavy acting scene to the constant demands of caring for babies and toddlers. See more in our Feel quotes.

I wasn't expecting a proposal from Aamir that night, especially when he had waited long hours for my shoot to get over and I too was drained after giving back-to-back scenes that involved portraying a lot of mental traumas and...

Quotes by Sanjeeda Sheikh

I was watching a Storyville documentary called 'Blackfish' about killer whales in captivity. I was emotionally drained by the end. It revealed a real behind-the-scenes truth on what we do with animals.

Quotes by Rupert Evans

This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.

Quotes by Ron Wyden

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my...

Quotes by Roger Maris

America Quotes

With the indiscriminate touching-up of photos, we've grown accustomed to seeing personalities drained of all their humanity, yet we consider them as real.

Quotes by Peter Lindbergh

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other.

Quotes by Mika Brzezinski

There was a scene in 'Qubool Hai' where Asad shoots his father. After shooting for it, I was drained completely. At times, my character's mood gets very depressing. Post shoot, it takes a good half hour to get out of...

Quotes by Karan Singh Grover

We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by...

Quotes by Kali Uchis

Actually, after 'All Love Lost' I was so drained creatively that I didn’t have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.

Quotes by Joe Budden

Day Quotes

It's hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you've just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would...

Quotes by Jay DeMarcus

Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.

Quotes by Elvis Mitchell

If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can't go any further with it, then I stop, even if the song is unfinished. Most of the time, when it's...

Quotes by Ella Henderson

Under the lights, there's a lot of pressure, my first big show. The mental pressure drained me out a bit. I was fit and healthy, but I was thinking, 'Why am I tired?' There are so many things that go...

Quotes by Dillian Whyte

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up.

Quotes by Deval Patrick

Feel Quotes

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

Quotes by David McCallum

When confronted with a direct threat to American security, Obama has shown he is willing to act unilaterally - in a targeted, get-in-and-get-out fashion, that avoids, at all costs, the kind of messy ground wars and lengthy occupations that have...

Quotes by David E. Sanger

DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers' lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a...

Quotes by Charles Best

The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.

Quotes by Barbara Demick

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.

Quotes by Ayelet Waldman

Good Quotes

I put a hell of a lot of myself into 'Love Never Dies,' and I felt quite drained afterwards.

Quotes by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this Drained quotes collection about?
It gathers quotes describing exhaustion in different forms, whether emotional drain from acting, physical depletion from parenting, or creative burnout after finishing work.
Why do people search for drained quotes?
People search for drained quotes when they need language for exhaustion or burnout, whether from work, caregiving, or a demanding project.
Is there a quote about feeling drained after an emotional acting scene?
Yes, one describes being drained completely after filming a scene involving a father being shot, noting that a heavy character's mood can take real time to shake off.
Do any quotes describe being drained by parenting?
Yes, one describes the constant needs of babies and toddlers as draining the life out of one's sense of self and family relationships.
Is creative burnout mentioned in this collection?
Yes, one describes being so creatively drained after finishing a project that there was no clear sense of what came next, leading to starting over from scratch.

One quote also describes creative depletion after finishing a major project, a theme worth pairing with our Good quotes.