Quotes about exhaustion
George Sand -
When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.
Gabrielle Zevin - Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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.
Thomas Hardy -
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.
Kevin Barry -
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.
Charlie Higson - The Enemy
Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.
Lois McMaster Bujold - Shards of Honour
It was hell to be so tired, and still care.
Laura Buzo - Love and Other Perishable Items
The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And I hate it. I can be up in my room when she's in the kitchen below and I feel her despair seeping up through the floorboards. You can hear her banging pots and pans or cursing the vacuum cleaner
B.J. Novak - One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.
Haruki Murakami - 1973
For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some unknown force inside me had taken a wrong turn somewhere, and was leading me off in some strange direction to another world
Edmondo de Amicis - Coração
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.
Scott Hastie -
Soothing the exhaustionIn my soul,So I can fall back skyward,Safe in your arms,And survive to dream again.
John Lubbock - The Use Of Life
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
Craig D. Lounsbrough - An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons
If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.
Sam Owen - 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.
Elizabeth Gilbert - Love
This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.
Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story
And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.
Piet Hein -
THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTIONSometimes, exhaustedwith toil and endeavour,I wish I could sleepfor ever and ever;but then this reflectionmy longing allays:I shall be doing itone of these days.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott - The White Linen Nurse
Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapacitated except her noble expression. Like a strip of lip-colored lead suspended from her poor little nose by two tugging wire-gray wrinkles her persistently conscientious sickroom smile seemed to be whanging aimlessly against her front teeth. The sensation certainly was very unpleasant.
Eknath Easwaran -
Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.
Mahatma Gandhi - The Story of My Experiments With Truth
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Dying Detective
I am somewhat exhausted I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?
Jeff Greenfield -
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Philip Larkin - Collected Poems
MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired;Then I shall start to feel the backward pullTake over, sickening and masterful — Some say, de
Matthew De Abaitua - If Then
Exhaustion is a thin blanket tattered with bullet holes.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz - Fatigue Artist
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....Laura Acosta
William Wordsworth - The Major Works
The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;Little we see in Nature that is ours;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,For this, for everything, we are out of tune;It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather beA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,Have glimpses that would make
Criss Jami - Healology
You wander. You work nearly every job known to man, it seems, only to arrive at the wonderings of philosophy.
Alain de Botton - The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything s
Napz Cherub Pellazo -
Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come. It won't be the end of all things to come.
Sabaa Tahir - An Ember in the Ashes
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.
Jaeda DeWalt -
From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.
Joyce Rachelle -
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.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.
E.M. Forster - Howards End
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the
Gordon T. Smith - Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential
The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.
Criss Jami - Healology
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.
Swami Dhyan Giten - Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being
Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female aspect within ourselves. Becoming aware of the inner man and woman means to understand that they have different visions of life. It means to understand that they have different perspectives and views of life. The inner man and woman are our two wings of love and freedom. Through awareness, acceptance and understanding, we can allow our two wings to develop in a deep and natura
Phillip Gary Smith - HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity
Nenia Campbell - Terrorscape
It wasn't that she was sad—sadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. The only thing she felt was numb. And tired. Yes, she very frequently felt tired.
Criss Jami - Healology
The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.
Chirag Tulsiani -
Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones.A transition of outlook and time, similar to our differing moods before and after slumber. Before the act we witness an exhaustion, a sulkiness but on gaining consciousness, we’re rejuvenated and good humored. The wakefulness is the new beginning whereas the tension the disturbance we perceive each night is the weariness of the beginnings, of each day. So there never really is an
Dee Remy -
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.