Top 100 Quotes About Exhaustion
#1. Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.
John Lahr
#2. Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing's quality and your productivity.
Jeff VanderMeer
#3. I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.
Peter Jacobson
#4. I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.
George Leigh Mallory
#5. I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
#6. Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found.
Lysa TerKeurst
#7. I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#8. Too many words cause exhaustion
[In the mind or from the mouth]
Better to abide in stillness
Lao-Tzu
#9. 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
#10. You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either.
James Spithill
#11. I trusted you," my voice shaky with anger and exhaustion.
"I know," Cole said simply. "And now I have all of eternity to earn your forgiveness.
Brodi Ashton
#12. The key [regarding sprinting] is to focus on the brief, intense, all-out aspect and refrain from a prolonged session that leads to exhaustion.
Mark Sisson
#13. They marched like madmen from place to place, until overcome by exhaustion and lack of strength they could no longer move from one side to the other, and they remained there, wherever this sad siren voice had summoned them, self-important, and dead.
David Grann
#14. Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don't make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.
Laurie Nadel
#15. Muscle-work can only make one weary - it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.
Jefferson Smith
#16. Soothing the exhaustion
In my soul,
So I can fall back skyward,
Safe in your arms,
And survive to dream again.
Scott Hastie
#18. Wrath jammed a finger in V's face. "Don't follow me. We clear? You don't follow me."
"You stupid fool," V said with total exhaustion. "You're the king. We all must follow you.
J.R. Ward
#19. The monkey's face had more emotions than a human's: curiosity, pity, exhaustion, like he'd already seen too much. Danny had to look away.
Jennifer Egan
#20. Interestingly, slushie ingestion not only delayed the point at which the subjects reached a critically high core body temperature, but also allowed a higher tolerable core body temperature before exhaustion was reached. In other words, the slushie let them start colder and get hotter.
Matt Fitzgerald
#21. This isn't anywhere I haven't been before. I've given up. In words muffled with exhaustion I whisper a prayer for my heart to stop.
Chuck Palahniuk
#22. Up ahead were two bleary-eyed truck stops-- nothing said exhaustion like the wide-awake lights of a truck stop. He chose the larger one.
Maggie Stiefvater
#23. Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization ... Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility
Bill Moyers
#24. There is nothing more abominable than being in a state of bodily exhaustion and mental irritation; I was too lethargic to get up and seek some means of occupying my mind, but I was too uneasy to fall asleep.
Elizabeth Peters
#25. There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.
Norah Jones
#26. As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.
Jan Karon
#27. John Barleycorn makes his appeal to weakness and failure, to weariness and exhaustion. He is the easy way out. And he is lying all the time. He offers false strength to the body, false elevation to the spirit, making things seem what they are not and vastly fairer than what they are.
Jack London
#28. It would be some joke to win through all these perils, only to drop dead of exhaustion within sight of Haven.
Alison Croggon
#29. I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion.
John Mulaney
#30. My body shook from pain, exhaustion, and the beginning of shock. I'd pay for all the powers I'd used, but the portal most of all. Good girls weren't supposed to open hell dimensions.
Lola Dodge
#31. It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to care.
Jacqueline Carey
#32. Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
R. Scott Bakker
#33. As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
Emil Cioran
#34. If you are very lucky, you're allowed to be in certain places during just the right season of your life: by the sea for the summer when you're seven or eight and full of the absolute need to swim until dark and exhaustion close their hands together, cupping you in between.
Jonathan Carroll
#35. [Prayer] is the thirst of ignorance drinking deep draughts from the overflowing fulness of divine wisdom. It is the exhaustion of weakness drawing nerve into a broken will from the resources of infinite strength.
Benjamin M. Palmer
#36. Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler
#37. As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.
Brian Ferneyhough
#38. But I thought you were home to stay," she said, exhaustion clear in her voice.
"Ellie, you were my home." He looked down at the sleeping infant. "But I can't stick around and watch you make the biggest mistake of your life.
Lindsey Brookes
#39. The sustainable alternative is one in which smaller and smaller regions produce more and more of the goods they need closer to where they are consumed. These economies will contribute little to the greenhouse effect and will survive the exhaustion of oil.
John B. Cobb
#40. In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography
proper work for tired artists
but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has triumphed in life. Maybe, incidentally, this accounts for the paucity of women's autobiographies
they know better.
Arthur Miller
#41. The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.
Mia Hamm
#42. As long as you believe what you're doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.
Arlene Blum
#43. Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.
Randall Mann
#44. If she were writing by candlelight she would now be in the dark, for a living flame would refuse to be fed by such pure exhaustion. Actually she is in the dark, for the
Philip Levine
#45. Exhaustion is a normal pregnancy symptom. I'm building an ecosystem in here!
Rachel Bertsche
#46. I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything - the natural world, human beings - that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits.
Chris Hedges
#47. Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.
Arthur Kroker
#48. For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.
Ernie Pyle
#49. There's no way to escape the crushing sense of loss, the endless exhaustion of time sawing away at the people and things I've loved.
Lauren Oliver
#50. At length Andrew smiled, slow and cold. It was the first time he'd smiled since coming off his drugs, and Neil couldn't help but stare. "Now it's getting fun," Andrew said. "Finally," Kevin said, equal parts exhaustion and exasperation. It
Nora Sakavic
#51. The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
Laura Hillenbrand
#52. The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness ... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.
Gordon T. Smith
#53. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
Fred Astaire
#54. Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.
Jack Kerouac
#55. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
#56. Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time - that's permanent.
Sabaa Tahir
#57. Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched ...
Janet Fitch
#58. I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.
Richard King
#59. For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
Christopher McDougall
#60. I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.
Connie Willis
#61. The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.
Tony Benn
#62. Our primary defaults are exhaustion and guilt. Meanwhile, we have beautiful lives begging to be really lived, really enjoyed, really applauded
Jen Hatmaker
#63. He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a new one, and faked his way through the days like a bad actor ...
Stewart O'Nan
#64. He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted - it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his finge
Colum McCann
#65. Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
Albert Camus
#66. You have not heard the last of me, Sorceress Perenelle," he sobbed. "You will never escape alive!" Fighting the wave of exhaustion that washed over her, Perenelle turned back to the ladder and pulled herself upward. "That's what everyone says," she murmured. "But I'm still alive,
Michael Scott
#67. I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.
Mark Haddon
#68. I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.
Veronica Roth
#69. The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped; thank God.
Anne Lamott
#70. If he walked, he discovered, he did not have to think, and that was just the way he liked it; when he thought, his mind went to places he could not control, places that made him feel uncomfortable. Exhaustion was the best thing.
Neil Gaiman
#71. No one has been successful in this 'race course'. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. 'We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. 'We' would simply tell, 'Dear Man, I am not capable.
Dada Bhagwan
#72. Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit. Resting in what Jesus has done for us releases the revolutionary power of the gospel.
J.D. Greear
#73. The dreams came. The memories. More vivid than ever before. As if the depth of his exhaustion had created the perfect canvas for them.
James Dashner
#74. THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION
Sometimes, exhausted
with toil and endeavour,
I wish I could sleep
for ever and ever;
but then this reflection
my longing allays:
I shall be doing it
one of these days.
Piet Hein
#76. Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to a reasonable number of hours per day and those when the brain is at its best.
Maurice Bigelow
#77. All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.
William Lavender
#79. We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.
Ronnie Barker
#80. I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?
Drew Barrymore
#81. There's a reason why people shouldn't talk at four in the morning. Exhaustion eliminates the ability to lie. It demolishes the ability to tiptoe around the truth. Emotions are too exposed and real. Heightened to the point of explosion.
Katie McGarry
#82. Being exhausted, yet keeping up the pursuit.' (Judges 8:4) Even after what I had said of wanting out, even after that humiliation, the physical exhaustion, the deep despair I felt, those words were my new marching orders. The next morning, I swung my rucksack over my shoulders and was off again.
Diet Eman
#83. The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.
Stewart Brand
#84. I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.
Eric Kandel
#85. It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion.
Theresa Serber Malkiel
#86. The monstrosity of this, reaching Smiley through a thickening wall of spiritual exhaustion, left him momentarily speechless.
John Le Carre
#89. First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
Pierre Schaeffer
#90. More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Jeff Greenfield
#91. It is for the best was on the tip of the priest's tongue. But he thought again of years, of childbearing and exhaustion. The wildness gone, the hawk's grace chained up... He swallowed. It is for the best. The wildness was sinful.
Katherine Arden
#92. Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.
Paul Johnson
#93. Like so much of the trouble in the world
it ends simply with exhaustion.
Toby Barlow
#94. Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion
Theodore Roethke
#95. Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own.
Marguerite Kelly
#96. His exhaustion is that of the gladiator after the combat; his labor was the whitewashing of a corner of the wall in his office.
Kafka, Franz
#97. Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.
Alonzo Mourning
#98. Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion ... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
Dorothea Lange
#99. Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.
Tony Campolo
#100. The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest.
It's wholeheartedness.
David Whyte
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