Top 100 Drained Quotes
#1. For too long, unfunded federal mandates have drained the budgets of states and communities. The strength and vitality of our communities must be restored.
Bernie Sanders
#2. When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.
Jane Porter
#3. There was something about decapitating an already dead woman, only to follow up with shared brownies with a witch he wasn't sure he trusted and simultaneously wanted to do the horizontal tango with, that drained the energy from him.
Kait Ballenger
#4. When I act, I come away drained. When I write, I come away energized.
Evangeline Lilly
#5. Disaster began at the end of September with an attack by RAF Bomber Command which drained the Dortmund-Ems canal.
Anonymous
#6. Still, though reading absorbed her, what the Queen had not expected was the degree to which it drained her of enthusiasm for anything else.
Alan Bennett
#7. The North Korean landscape is strikingly beautiful in places. It could be said to resemble America's Pacific Northwest - but substantially drained of color.
Barbara Demick
#8. I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out.
Aime Cesaire
#10. I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.
Thom Yorke
#11. So now I imagine, among these Angels and their drained white brides, momentous grunts and sweating, damp furry encounters; or, better, ignominious failures, cocks like three-week-old carrots, anguished fumblings upon flesh cold and unresponding as uncooked fish.
Margaret Atwood
#12. I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.
Jewel
#13. I feel like I get really energetic and hyper. If I do well in a show, I can't sleep afterwards. If I don't do well, I get kinda drained. I think because it's like a battle on stage.
Charlyne Yi
#14. When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I'm through a series, I'm so drained I don't want to get near the camera.
Cindy Sherman
#15. The pope was lying fully stretched out on the floor, his body half-obscured by Cardinal Villot, who was leaning over him. Calvi's heart jumped into his throat. The pontiff 's eyes were shut, his face distorted in pain. He wasn't breathing. He was life-less, drained of color.
Peter J. Tanous
#16. Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.
Horace
#17. Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.
John Keegan
#18. I did not want to cry any more. Instead I felt hollow, empty, as if all the meaning had been sucked out of me and I was drifting, light as a skeleton leaf, at the mercy of the four winds. I was drained of tears.
Juliet Marillier
#19. Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.
Robert Byron
#20. The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.
Anand Gopal
#21. I could feel what was left of my soul just slipping away as I fed on that girl until she was totally and completely drained.
Daniele Lanzarotta
#22. To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
Albert Camus
#23. Because freedom and liberty and equality are as vital as breath, we only notice their absence when we are left gasping when the colors of diversity and individual liberty are drained from the world around us.
Christina Engela
#24. Having been ripped open and drained by the crowd
When I enter my home,
Many homes seem to be waiting for me
to give a shape to this life
which is about to perish.
Suman Pokhrel
#25. When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.
Eileen Caddy
#26. I'm a writer," she declared before she drained the glass. "I should learn about everything.
Mary Cox
#27. Do you laugh at me?"
He was quiet for a moment and finally the tention drained from him. "No, Jaron," he said darkly. "I curse you with every breath I exhale, but I do not laugh.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#28. To have your life blow up four times before you're thirty would take something out of anyone, and I think it drained from my mom just enough hope that she never quite built her confidence back to what it once had been.
Dean Koontz
#29. Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#30. Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
Paulo Coelho
#31. The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.
Walter Brueggemann
#32. The darkest parts of my soul were thriving in the chaos of a world turned murderous black, and bereft of dreams. I was a downcast demigod, slayer of monsters. I bore the machete that drained their veins, stole their breath, and cut the life from their hearts.
Bobby Adair
#33. Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it, the halal portions of the past, drained of their redness, their blood. Unfortunately, this makes the stories less juicy ...
Salman Rushdie
#34. The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
Thomas Carlyle
#35. Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.
David Mitchell
#36. It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning.
Sharon Salzberg
#37. It was the final chapter of his breakdown, the moment when his glass drained of everything, and its emptiness awaited only for choices to come.
Sarah Winman
#38. Matt is the light of my life. When he's away the world seems a bit darker, as if the color of life has drained away.
Liz Becker
#39. There is a killer in every cowardly man, waiting for the right set of circumstances when the time has been drained of the possibility of reprisals and he feels free to act.
M.D. Lachlan
#40. If you slave away every day at a job you hate and come home drained and frustrated, what is that teaching your kids?
Alexander Kjerulf
#41. I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.
John Bonham
#42. Too many bleak years have passed over this little spot of Central Europe, and they've drained all the warmth out of this house. They have killed any desire for friendliness and, let me repeat it, you won't find anything in the least like intimacy here.
Albert Camus
#43. singing has to come from the inside, and i don't have anything left inside.'
'really? How did that happen?'
'it all just drained out.
Francine Rivers
#44. When you deal with people, it tends to drag your energy down - if those people are in a lower auric state than you. If you meditate and they don't, then by the end of the day you tend to be more drained.
Frederick Lenz
#45. He was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he drained others of theirs.
Khaled Hosseini
#46. I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.
Isabel Allende
#47. When we feel too drained to move forward, God is right there with us, ready to tenderly revive and restore us.
Teresa Santoski
#48. Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything
Brielle A. Marino
#49. 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.
David McCallum
#50. The first rose on my rose-tree
Budded, bloomed, and shattered,
During sad days when to me
Nothing mattered.
Grief of grief has drained me clean;
Still it seems a pity
No one saw, - it must have been
Very pretty.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#51. You're real, he whispered. I had thought him pale already. Now all vestiges of color drained from his face.
Diana Gabaldon
#52. It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained ... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.
James Worthy
#53. And she thought then how strange it was that disaster
the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face
could be at times, such a thing of beauty.
Anita Shreve
#54. Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.
Anne Michaels
#55. The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.
Rob Lowe
#56. The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler
#57. I hope I'll keep people up at night, unable to stop turning pages. That's my goal: exhausted, emotionally drained readers who can't stop crying.
Jillian Medoff
#58. He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to drop words and whole sentences and still arrive at the cold conclusion.
Joan Didion
#59. I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant.
Don DeLillo
#60. Sometimes I feel really bad for the audience. I don't know how to make them happy. And you just feel drained cause you're trying everything possible to turn things around. And sometimes it is possible to turn things around on stage, and I've done it before, but sometimes it's impossible.
Charlyne Yi
#61. I'd drained our bank account, and there was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled "DEAD SPIDERS." As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't have wanted to look at dead spiders. I
Adam Rex
#62. In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.
Pete Sampras
#63. And so it was that in the midst of chaos and color and light, in the glorious rebirth of a magical world, there remained two small vessels dark and drained. And those vessels were the heart and the soul of a brokenhearted young mage, sobbing alone in the sand.
Lisa McMann
#64. There were over thirty thousand Wabanakis living on the East Coast in 1600 and that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost entirely a result of contact with settlers, who brought foreign diseases and alcohol, drained resources, and fought with the tribes for control of the land.
Christina Baker Kline
#65. The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.
Marguerite Duras
#66. Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.
Randeep Hooda
#67. Oh, Lord. Tess could feel her entire personality being drained from her body. Those talkative, energetic people always left her feeling that way.
Liane Moriarty
#68. The tutor's eyelids drooped; his thoughts drained out of his face like water seeping into earth.
Patricia A. McKillip
#70. This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Ron Wyden
#71. It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.
Alexander Pushkin
#72. You have to be careful that in giving energy, you do not allow yourself to be excessively drained or used.
Frederick Lenz
#73. In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit it, it is perpetuated, not 'drained.' ... An emotion without social rules of containment and expression is like an egg without a shell: a gooey mess ...
Carol Tavris
#74. I would not want to live in a world drained of all religious feeling. I am not thinking of faith but of that inner vibration, which, independent of any belief in particular, projects you into and sometimes above God.
Emil Cioran
#75. He drained a bar dry last night and is managing to speak in iambic pentameter. I have two glasses of wine with dinner and I can barely decipher the TV Guide the next day. I'm so freaking old." "Join
Lucy Parker
#76. There's something very ... I don't know; primitive, perhaps, about you, Gurgeh. You've never changed sex, have you?' He shook his head. 'Or slept with a man?' Another shake. 'I thought so,' Yay said. 'You're strange, Gurgeh.' She drained her glass.
Iain Banks
#77. As caretakers, we feel drained when caring for another, and in order to take care of someone else, we need to take care of ourselves at the same time.
Jenna Morasca
#78. If you think that starving yourself all day is going to make you happy, you're a fool, because not only are you physically drained, you're mentally drained, with nothing left to give to your work or your lover or whoever it is you so want to be beautiful for.
Jade Jagger
#79. A muffled curse comes from the doorway. I jerk my head to find Jeb there, blood drained from his face. His gaze is fierce yet dejected, a deep and gut-twisting wound I haven't seen since his dad was alive and tormenting him.
A.G. Howard
#80. There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.
Galt Niederhoffer
#81. Keep some of your attention on your navel center when you are in a situation in which you feel your power is being drained. You will find that you will keep your power tighter, you won't lose as much.
Frederick Lenz
#82. I was exhausted and emotionally drained. That little episode was a summary of what my life had become - a nightmare that never let up.
Manel Loureiro
#83. 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.
Mika Brzezinski
#84. I took my time walking down to the lake, hoping that somehow the ache in my heart would ease. My joy at the success on the roof had drained away, leaving me hollow, like a well someone could shout down and hear nothing back but echoes.
Leigh Bardugo
#86. I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#87. 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 desire to play baseball.
Roger Maris
#88. The most powerful force to maintaining a good immune system is the power of positive thinking and not allowing yourself to be unnecessarily drained emotionally by worries and fears.
Frederick Lenz
#89. The tide of her exhilaration drained from her, leaving her exhausted and heartsick. She would have bound the entire city, made them all into her golems, to satisfy her own need to be useful.
Helene Wecker
#90. Ah, gentle drivers gliding through summer's black nights, what frolics, what twists of lust, you might see from your impeccable highways if Kumfy Kabins were suddenly drained of their pigments and became as transparent as boxes of glass!
Vladimir Nabokov
#91. An essential point in the social philosophy of interventionism is the existence of an inexhaustible fund which can be squeezed forever. The whole system of interventionism collapses when the fountain is drained off: The Santa Clause principle liquidates itself.
Ludwig Von Mises
#92. Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
Barry N. Malzberg
#93. Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.
Norman Nicholson
#94. 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.
Deval Patrick
#95. I felt white, drained of blood, cared for, purified. Peaceful.
Margaret Atwood
#96. All those losers I've crossed paths with have drained me clean from my positive energy. They took all the upbeat goodness right out of me and left me overanalyzing the possibility of dating ever again.
A.O. Peart
#97. James was truly an unknown quantity. He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.
Terry Hoeppner
#98. The hiatus you spoke about happened in 1998. I was somewhat numb from being out on the road every night. I had to stop because I was emotionally and physically drained.
Chuck Mangione
#99. Money equals the ability to be mobile in this word, to travel, to live in a place that is suitable, to not be brought down or drained, to not to be a victim.
Frederick Lenz
#100. Limp along until your legs are spent,
and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
Rumi
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