Quotes About Exhausting

#1. There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

Scott Simon

#2. I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

Michel Houellebecq

#3. The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

Alexandra Adornetto

#4. Late-night prejudice was apparently exhausting.

Chloe Neill

#5. It's draining, it's exhausting, it's hell... it's heaven. It's hedonism gone wild.

E.L. James

#6. Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

Joe Sacco

#7. It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Tasha Alexander

#8. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

Catherine Lacey

#9. Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

William Beveridge

#10. It's like that old saying: You can't please anybody, so you might as well be alone. (Actually, I don't think that's the saying. I think it's actually, You can't please everybody, so you might as well just please yourself. Whatever. They're both exhausting.)

Jen Cross

#11. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.

Ben H. Winters

#12. This whole situation is so fucked up. This game. This thing between us. It's exhausting. God, I'm just so sick of it and tired of hating Mr. Black one minute to wanting a future with you the next. A future I know will never happen.

Ella Dominguez

#13. In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

Jenny Lawson

#14. I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.

John Barton

#15. How can you be tired? your poor horse did all the running."
"It was emotionally exhausting, Hammond," Breeze said, rapping the larger man's hand with his cane.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

Tan Redding

#17. [T]o be a castaway is to be caught up in grim and exhausting opposites.

Yann Martel

#18. Adam has to work to defend himself against me and I'm exhausting him. I'm making him sick and I'm weakening his body and if he ever slips again. If he ever forgets. If he ever makes a mistake or loses focus or becomes too aware of the fact that he's using his gift to control what I might do -

Tahereh Mafi

#19. This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Jan De Bont

#20. I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.

Mathew Baynton

#21. You look beautiful. I'm so happy I finally agreed to go on this date with you." That makes me laugh. "Really? Were you being hounded relentlessly?" "Like you wouldn't believe," he says, raising his eyebrows. "It's been exhausting having to dodge your advances.

Claire Contreras

#22. She never knew from one moment to the next how he was going to behave toward her and therefore she constantly had to adjust her balance. It was exhausting.

Elizabeth Chadwick

#23. The trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.

Marisha Pessl

#24. Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

Claire Tomalin

#25. It is the great beauty of our science, chemistry, that advancement in it, whether in a degree great or small, instead of exhausting the subjects of research, opens the doors to further and more abundant knowledge, overflowing with beauty and utility.

Michael Faraday

#26. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

John Lubbock

#27. Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting to read.

A.W. Tozer

#28. Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.

Ciaran Hinds

#29. The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system

Killer Mike

#30. It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

Lemony Snicket

#31. The citizens have "the extraordinary and exhausting practice of sitting down to dinner at any time between 10m and 11 p.m. I found it challenging to stay animated and conversational when my normal bedtime was usually about the time that the first course was being cleared".

Tony Leon

#32. When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.

Lucy Punch

#33. I'm always on guard around most people. They do not realize how exhausting that is to keep up. That is why afterwards I really need my space.

Tina J. Richardson

#34. Why do I find the fantasy - husband, family, kids - exhausting instead of alluring? Is there something wrong with me? Do I have a life?

Caroline Knapp

#35. There were so many points where I was like, 'I can't do this.' It was too exhausting. It's just a lot, and then suddenly something happens, and your career changes, and it's so much fun and wonderful. I look back on those moments, and I'm so glad I didn't give up.

Marisa Coughlan

#36. It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.

Jim Carrey

#37. I'm a sex machine to both genders. It's all very exhausting. I need a lot of sleep.

Rupert Everett

#38. Making and faking love are entirely different. Lust is quick. Love is not. It is a more sustained, exhausting emotion even to sham!

Kavita Kane

#39. I remember finding it extremely hard to open presents as a child because the requisite theatricality was too exhausting.

Marina Keegan

#40. And that's why I finally ended it. I realized today that it's exhausting to be a coward.

Julie Buxbaum

#41. Can we ever have a normal conversation without it disintegrating into an argument? It's exhausting

E.L. James

#42. Trying so hard to make things go our way in this world, doing so much leaning, is exhausting. I am convinced that is exactly what Jesus had in mind when he said, 'Come to me all you who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28 NASB).

Van Harden

#43. Holding myself to perfectionistic standards, I used to think I had to become lifelong friends with everyone who entered my life. This was exhausting, and I now know it's not true. I believe the old saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. (127)

Jenni Schaefer

#44. It's exhausting, tiptoeing around someone who barges into your life with good intentions.

Gretta Mulrooney

#45. At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

Kelly Corrigan

#46. I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Ang Lee

#47. Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.

St. Lucia

#48. It is utterly exhausting being Black in America - physically, mentally, and emotionally. While many minority groups and women feel similar stress, there is no respite or escape from your badge of color.

Marian Wright Edelman

#49. Girl time, I'm also learning, can be emotionally exhausting and more than a bit confusing. She's

Heather Lyons

#50. I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama. It's heavy. Also, I think the humor really highlights the pathos and the struggle. You can slam it up against drama, and it makes both shine.

Jenji Kohan

#51. It turns out that trying to ignore somebody is about the most, exhausting thing in the world.

Sarina Bowen

#52. Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

Callie Thorne

#53. I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

Patricia McBride

#54. The most exhausting of all our adventures is that journey down the long corridors of the mind to the last halls where belief is enthroned.

Thornton Wilder

#55. Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. - as Frank Roennfeldt

M.L. Stedman

#56. I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

Jim Gaffigan

#57. There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.

Henrik Ibsen

#58. Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

Mindy Kaling

#59. Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

Scott Simon

#60. Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.

Wallis Simpson

#61. She leaned in, a tip she had read today on HuffPo's Love & Sex section. Boobs out, smile wide, voice low.
Being sexy was exhausting.

Kate Meader

#62. The problem with driving around Iceland is that you're basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It's totally exhausting.

Stephen Markley

#63. I have just been elected Captain of the Nap Squad. It's a very exhausting position, and requires training twice a day, once when I get up and once before bed.

Jarod Kintz

#64. Our insecurities drive us. Our fears control us. We try to hide the first and deny the second and it is exhausting us.

David Amerland

#65. But being someone else isn't liberating. It's exhausting.

G. Willow Wilson

#66. I thought being faithful was about becoming someone other than who I was ... it wasn't until I failed that I began to wonder if my human wholeness might be more useful to God than my exhausting goodness.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#67. Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Carrie Fisher

#68. Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

Rosemary Mahoney

#69. Nothing is very constant in Beirut. Certainly not dreams. But despair isn't constant either. Beirut is a city to be loved and hated a thousand times a day. Every day. It is exhausting, but it is also beautiful.

Nasri Atallah

#70. The bright light of brilliance keeps the darkness away, but it can be so very exhausting.

Fennel Hudson

#71. While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

Timothy Keller

#72. The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.

Rupert Everett

#73. Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless that, in the blackness, all one could make out were the contours of despair.

Laura Tillman

#74. Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#75. Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.

Salma Hayek

#76. Pretending to be a normal, functioning member of society is exhausting stuff.

Lia Riley

#77. The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so complicated that it's exhausting to get them out in the right order." He glanced up at her. That sounded like an evasion if ever she'd heard one. She raised an eyebrow.

Merrie Haskell

#78. Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Garrett Hardin

#79. A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Steve Prefontaine

#80. I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.

Bryan Batt

#81. Motherhood:
The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding
and life-enhancing journey a woman can take.

Charlotte Pearson

#82. Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

Mike Birbiglia

#83. It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#84. There are many tough sides to being a jockey. Injury is something we all dread, but spending lengthy periods in the bath or the sauna just to shed a few pounds can be an exhausting and draining experience.

Tony McCoy

#85. It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

Chuck Klosterman

#86. A life too full of excitement is an exhausting life, in which continually stronger stimuli are needed to give the thrill that has come to be thought an essential part of pleasure.

Bertrand Russell

#87. Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Peter Charles Newman

#88. There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Madeleine L'Engle

#89. Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

Pope John Paul II

#90. Boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Jung Chang

#91. Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time
can be exhausting.

Jane Devin

#92. She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love ... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

Veronica Roth

#93. A good woman's love can change even the angriest of men," he said with an easy grin. "And I had my brothers. I grew tired of holding all that rage. It was exhausting. Love, on the other hand, can give you strength when you think you have no more, and hope when there is none.

Donna Grant

#94. I just slept for fifteen hours straight. Yes, writing a musical is THAT exhausting!

Christy Hall

#95. Even one who has been to God a million times with the same problem need not fear exhausting the grace of God.

Tullian Tchividjian

#96. Just for the record, a nymphomaniac girlfriend might be great material for imagination, but in real life, trust me, having a nympho in your bed night after night is not as fantastic as it sounds. At worst, they are sick; at best they are exhausting, and in both cases they wear you out.

Carol Vorvain

#97. With a movie, it's probably easier to sustain intensity and seriousness over the 90-minute duration. But in an open-world game it becomes exhausting, demotivating and even uninteresting for the player.

Hideo Kojima

#98. Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

Matt Damon

#99. I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever.

Rob Reiner

#100. Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Anita Shreve