Quotes About Exhausting

#1. His enthusiasm was exhausting and charming at the same time. He wanted to impress her, so she resolved to be impressed. It was a small enough thing to give someone.

James S.A. Corey

#2. The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.

Lexa Doig

#3. After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

Albert Camus

#4. Killing someone is exhausting. I found this out the hard way.

Sarah Ciacia

#5. Those who are driven by poverty, those who're free from material worries hunger exhausting labor a joyless existence ask the same question, the question of meaning.

Kathy Acker

#6. All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

Thomas Sowell

#7. I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

Bat For Lashes

#8. Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Arthur Miller

#9. Exactly,' the queen said. 'I've been where you are, and I know how difficult it is. You second guess the things you do; you second guess everything he does. You wonder over every conversation, trying to read into the breaths between sentences. It's exhausting.

Kiera Cass

#10. It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.

Wendy Percival

#11. Yes indeed! My desires were fulfilled beyond measure. My lover and I emerged from the Bedouin tent a little before sunrise. Finding a quiet spot, we sat in silence, witnessing the morning sun rise above the mountain of Moses, while our host slept peacefully, after an exhausting night of love.

Young

#12. Michel is a good man, full of hope. Sometimes hope is exhausting.

Zadie Smith

#13. It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Guillaume Canet

#14. It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad.

David Levithan

#15. Because introverts are typically good listeners and, at least, have the appearance of calmness, we are attractive to emotionally needy people. Introverts, gratified that other people are initiating with them, can easily get caught in these exhausting and unsatisfying relationships.

Adam S. McHugh

#16. Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

George Orwell

#17. Now was not the time to get ensnared in something new and complicated, and he didn't really have the energy for a one-night hookup which, he knew, had a funny way of becoming as exhausting as something longer-term.

Hanya Yanagihara

#18. I'd prefer a debriefing by the professional," Matthias said. "Rather than one of the idiot's exhausting, million-words-in-one-breath babbling explanations." "Hey," I said. "That is a rare talent." "Maybe your only talent.

A&E Kirk

#19. But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

Zhuangzi

#20. Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.

Tom Peters

#21. Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

Quentin Crisp

#22. Overthinkers are the most exhausting alcoholics.

Sarah Hepola

#23. It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me
it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

Cassandra Clare

#24. There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.

David Nicholls

#25. I'm very efficient and the people who work with me always say that - they know when they have a day with me it's going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible.

Eva Longoria

#26. One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.

Joyce Maynard

#27. In carrying on this hipster virus I live a locust-like existence, exhausting and shedding myself in ruination from one life to the next.

Nate Powell

#28. You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.

Ed Harris

#29. When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

Richard Whately

#31. Because you were tired of fighting heaven, you relaxed in that exhausting adventure in which you had to mutilate souls and destroy the world. In short, you chose injustice and sided with the gods. Your logic was merely apparent. I,

Albert Camus

#32. Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.

Maggie Steber

#33. Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him

Tim Kreider

#34. Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#35. It can be hard for extroverts to understand how badly introverts need to recharge at the end of a busy day. We all empathize with a sleep-deprived mate who comes home from work too tired to talk, but it's harder to grasp that social overstimulation can be just as exhausting.

Susan Cain

#36. A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

Patti LuPone

#37. I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Noah Hawley

#38. Living life in separate compartments can lead to internal conflict and exhausting tension.

Russell M. Nelson

#39. Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match.

Judith Orloff

#40. Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

Koji Suzuki

#41. Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting!

Veronica Purcell

#42. Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

Angela Davis

#43. Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

Lord Byron

#44. False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

Guy Finley

#45. Dr. Doemling, does he want to fuck her or kill her, or eat her, or what?' Mason asked, exhausting the possibilities he could see. 'Probably all three,' Dr. Doemling said.

Thomas Harris

#46. Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.

Simon Kinberg

#47. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Mark Kozelek

#48. I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.

Nick Harkaway

#49. Playing it safe and tiptoeing through life is exhausting. Keeping all of your gifts trapped inside tires the crap out of you. It takes the same amount of effort to create something extraordinary as it takes to create something ordinary.

Lysa Mateu

#50. Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

Jean Cocteau

#51. It's not that white guys shouldn't be allowed to engage in discussions on race in America. But there's nothing more exhausting than white male liberals' dogmatisms on race that were clearly formed during a conversation they had with that one black guy they met back in college.

John Ridley

#52. Avoiding our pain is needlessly exhausting. Pain can not be killed. When we attempt to bury our pain, it rises up from the grave of our emotions, haunting us, until we acknowledge its presence. We can heal our pain when we allow it to move through us.

Jaeda DeWalt

#53. For me, acting is like a holiday. When you're directing, you have a strong sense of responsibility for others. It's exciting but exhausting, especially when you're like me: always wanting to break the rules.

Simon McBurney

#54. Pursuing fun is exhausting. Having fun is just fun. Much more relaxing just to do your work, don't you think? I mean if you enjoy it.

Peter Heller

#55. Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.

Henna Inam

#56. But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.

Sam Taylor

#57. Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

Wallace D. Wattles

#58. Reporters. Honestly. What an exhausting profession, to be professionally trained to be relentless.

Mary Louise Kelly

#59. Yes, Emily Dickenson
a rather exhausting poet, now I come to think of it. All that breathlessness and skipping about. What's wrong with nice, long lines and a jaunty rhythm?

Sarah Waters

#60. Or I can forgive and forget ... 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 ... we always have a choice.

M.L. Stedman

#61. Other opportunities arise from time to time that almost don't accord with the overall situation, opportunities whereby a word, a glance, a sigh of trust may achieve more than a lifetime of exhausting endeavour.

Franz Kafka

#62. Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

John Irving

#63. I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

#64. The road is a lonely, exhausting, invigorating, and living thing, but the wonder of seeing things we never would have dreamed of makes it worth the price we pay to leave the safety of home

Zak Bagans

#65. Fighting was an exhausting business, and so was fear.

Diana Gabaldon

#66. The point is, people have been having babies for thousands of years. There will be frightening moments and exhausting moments, but more than anything---"
"--- there will just be love.

Erica Ridley

#67. There is economy in this. For the attempt to see all things freshly and in detail, rather than as types and generalities, is exhausting, and among busy affairs practically out of the question. In

Walter Lippmann

#68. I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

Sam Yagan

#69. I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

Diane Mott Davidson

#70. Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

Donald Miller

#71. One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.

Robert Galbraith

#72. Race is there. You're tire of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.

Jon Stewart

#73. There would be very little point in my exhausting myself and other conservationists themselves in trying to protect animals and habitats if we weren't at the same time raising young people to be better stewards.

Jane Goodall

#74. God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.

Leonard Ravenhill

#75. He's weeping, his face dissolving in his hands. It's exhausting. People hiding behind the asteroid, like it's an excuse for poor conduct, for miserable and desperate and selfish behavior, everybody ducking in its comet-tail like children in mommy's skirts.

Ben H. Winters

#76. Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

Marianne Williamson

#77. I have a friend - I send her one text and I get 20 texts back. Guys don't want a million texts. It's exhausting.

Anderson Cooper

#78. Braden did not look amused. "Not even twenty our hours in and this arrangement is already exhausting the fuck out of me."
"Well you've given me four orgasms. That oughta take it out of a guy.

Samantha Young

#79. I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before ... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.

America Ferrera

#80. There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

Natalie Imbruglia

#81. The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.

Delta Goodrem

#82. When I'm on that field, I give it everything I have, and when I come off, I'm a mom. As tired and exhausting as it is, it's about coming back, even after double days, and still being able to enjoy the kids.

Christie Rampone

#83. Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

James Norton

#84. If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.

Nouman Ali Khan

#85. None of them even know who they are. They're just acting out their roles. Being what their parents made them. Always trying to be what's expected. It's exhausting.

Marie Sexton

#86. I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

Elizabeth McGovern

#87. It's exhausting," he said. "Isn't it?"
Her gaze slid to his mouth, and just that little spark of heat in her expression created the fire low in his gut. "What?"
"Resisting.

Skye Jordan

#88. Cheating death was exhausting.

Melissa Landers

#89. I can't imagine what it would be like being James Bond 24 hours. That must be exhausting.

Javier Bardem

#90. Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

Miss Read

#91. To some, challenges are exhausting. To others, they are opportunities in waiting.

Tony DiCicco

#92. I can't be in love with every hot movie star; it's exhausting.

Katie Heaney

#93. Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Elizabeth Bibesco

#94. The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting

Gertrude Stein

#95. It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

Stephen Fry

#96. Joy could be as exhausting as grief.

Helen Kieran Reilly

#97. Isn't it exhausting?"
"What?"
"Keeping people out.

K.A. Tucker

#98. Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

Veikko Karvonen

#99. What I've learned at close quarters is that excellence, year after year, is exhausting.

Hank Haney

#100. My first press tour for 'Vikings' was pretty overwhelming. Between all the hotels, TV shows and talking a lot, I would get done and have to sit in silence for a while. It was exhausting, and you really have to focus.

Clive Standen