Exhaustion Quotes
Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your passions exhaust you.
Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.
Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.
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.
If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.
I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.
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.
Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all day with a haggard look.
Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.
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.
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.
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.
I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.
... men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
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.
Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
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.
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.
Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse.
Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.
Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come. It won't be the end of all things to come.
You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.
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.
From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.
Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity
Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.
Soothing the exhaustionIn my soul, So I can fall back skyward, Safe in your arms, And survive to dream again.
Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.
For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.
This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.
But there were certain early days in Casterbridge- days of firmamental exhaustion which followed angry south-westerly tempests-when, if the sun shone, the air was like velvet.
