Quotes about Exhaustion

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity. Votes: 4

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. Votes: 4

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. Votes: 4

Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. Votes: 4

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. Votes: 4

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. Votes: 4

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Votes: 4

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Evidence exhausts the truth. Votes: 2

Don't want to slump over the oars. Votes: 2

I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day. Votes: 2

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. Votes: 2

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. Votes: 2

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. Votes: 2

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. Votes: 2

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. Votes: 2

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone. Votes: 2

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius. Votes: 2

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct. Votes: 2

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion. Votes: 2

I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy. Votes: 2

Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions. Votes: 2

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. Votes: 2

If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy... Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also have been many times when I felt the exhaustion - when it was physically painful, but I just couldn't stop. Votes: 2

The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you can tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring. Votes: 2

About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer... and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine. Votes: 2

There's no narcotic like exhaustion. Votes: 0

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness. Votes: 0

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom. Votes: 0

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard. Votes: 0

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion. Votes: 0

I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion. Votes: 0

Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. Votes: 0

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching. Votes: 0

Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion Votes: 0

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden. Votes: 0

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. Votes: 0

A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching Votes: 0

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.... Votes: 0

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. Votes: 0

I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving. Votes: 0

Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments. Votes: 0

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things. Votes: 0

"¦ but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. Votes: 0

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion. Votes: 0

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever. Votes: 0

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe. Votes: 0

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music. Votes: 0

When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion Votes: 0

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. Votes: 0

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children. Votes: 0

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work. Votes: 0

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split. Votes: 0

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. Votes: 0

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. Votes: 0

As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step. Votes: 0

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Votes: 0

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion. Votes: 0

For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. Votes: 0

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'? Votes: 0

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

At the end of the day, honoring God leads to good things. Anything else leads to confusion, emotional exhaustion and a lack of good things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... 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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that. Votes: 0

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room... Votes: 0

I think my work is about the different strategies man has invented to deal with desire, frustration, fear of death, exhaustion. It's very much about life on earth. Votes: 0

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known. Votes: 0

[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing in the world without the bother of making new ones. Votes: 0

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion. Votes: 0

Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any setback is bad, but if you see it from a perspective, you'll recover. Votes: 0

If you just keep giving constantly, if you don't really take thought of your own welfare and your own awareness, but just give, beyond exhaustion - then your life will always be a constant progression. Votes: 0

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. Votes: 0