Quotes About Exhausted Life

#1. The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde

#2. Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

Oscar Wilde

#3. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Andrew Schneider

#5. Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Samuel Johnson

#6. Yesterday's poets are today's detectives. They spend a life sniffing out the hundredth line, wrapping up a case, and limping exhausted into the sunset.

Patti Smith

#7. She comes to life with a soft exhausted sound, like someone saved from drowning.

James Salter

#8. Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Samuel Johnson

#9. Any stressful thought that you have about the planet, for example, shows you where you are stuck, where your energy is being exhausted in not fully meeting life as it is, without condition.

Byron Katie

#10. The world never stops. No matter how exhausted you feel, it keeps dragging you on and on and there's no rest.

Mark O'Sullivan

#11. Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

Boris Pasternak

#12. Whenever you feel exhausted, take time to relax, refresh and recharge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. 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

#14. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.

Don DeLillo

#15. Have you ever done anything in your life without wondering how it looked to someone else? Do you know what it is to do something as simple as genuinely smile or laugh without trying to see it through another person's eyes? I feel exhausted for you.

Hope Denney

#16. What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life.

Muhammad Ali

#17. But I was living my life sideway. I did not act on what I wanted, I did not say the things I thought, and being so stifled and clamped all the time left me exhausted; no matter what I was doing, I was always imagining something else.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#18. A loose end - that's what we woman call it, when we are overwhelmed by the care of small children, the weight of small tasks, a life in which we fall into bed at the end of the day exhausted from being all things to all people.

Anna Quindlen

#19. When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.

Craig Davidson

#20. One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

Alexandra David-Neel

#21. Gay life is this object out there that's waiting to be written about. A lot of people think we've exhausted all the themes of gay fiction, but we've just barely touched on them.

Edmund White

#22. Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house ... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.

Michelle Obama

#23. If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'

Diana Nyad

#24. Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.

Han Kang

#25. When the natural resources of any nation become exhausted," he warned, "disaster and decay in every department of national life follow as a matter of course."2

Michael Wolraich

#26. I'm looking very much forward to growing older. I want to be an exhausted older woman but with a very full life behind me and one still going.

Angelina Jolie

#27. It enraged and exhausted me to observe how the common daily life callously demanded its due and devoured the abundance of optimism I had brought with me.

Hermann Hesse

#28. Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

Eknath Easwaran

#29. So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer [ ... ] That forward-looking element is ... inseparable from the judgment of beauty.

Alexander Nehamas

#30. I wasn't even sure I wanted a man in my life again; by that time I'd exhausted the notion that the answer to a man is another man, and I was out of breath.

Margaret Atwood

#31. Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

Banana Yoshimoto

#32. It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#33. I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the face of predation, life in the wake of whaling ships.

Megan Mayhew Bergman

#34. If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.

Jeremy Piven

#35. Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may happen that never again in your whole life will you have such a chance to ask for the forgiveness for your sins.

John Climacus

#36. I guess after all those years he had exhausted me. I never knew I was signing up for a battle, but I finally knew that he had won.

Deb Caletti

#37. The mind that does inner intentions (bhaav-mann) is the 'charge' mind. The mind that is getting exhausted (dravya-mann) is the 'discharge' mind. Bhaav-mann creates the worldly life. Dravya-mann brings an end to the worldly life. When egoism goes away, bhaav-mann vanishes.

Dada Bhagwan

#38. It is time for us to breathe and build margin into our lives for God. Sabbath was intended as a gift, and it is still a gift to us today. If you are weary, worn out, and exhausted the concept of Sabbath will change your life.

Priscilla Shirer

#39. At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death.

Delmore Schwartz

#40. If you want to write what the world is about, you have to write details ... real life is in the dishes. Real life is pushing strollers up the street, folding T-shirts, the alarm clock going off early and you dropping into bed exhausted every night. That's real life.

Anna Quindlen

#41. Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

Naguib Mahfouz

#42. Goddamn but her mind was so exhausted with trying to hold the world together, tired of being the living glue for herself, as if she let go, great pieces of her life would shatter and fall off in mockery of the apocalypse.

Jim Harrison

#43. The stars, like the hollow eyes of a god forgotten, marry the sadness of the exhausted hour and inspire a little chaos, a little gentleness, to those below.

I look up at the sky and see everything I've ever lost,
waiting for me.

Marlen Komar

#44. I wouldn't call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day.

Vir Das

#45. Recycling is what we do when we're out of options to avoid, repair, or reuse the product first. Firstly: Reduce. Don't buy what we don't need. Repair: Fix stuff that still has life in it. Reuse: Share. Then, only when you've exhausted those options, recycle.

Annie Leonard

#46. This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

Elizabeth Gilbert