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“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.”

Thinking Long Passion Forty Lasting Exhaustion Hangover Long Lasting

Author:Kevin Barry

“Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be useful. It is good for close-up work. We have invented the magnifying glass and the microscope to narrow our vision, because narrowness makes for precision. But narrowness also makes for a failure of purpose, for exhaustion of the will; for purpose depends upon a broad vision, a clear sight of one's objective.”

“When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.”

“I think everyone can relate to the werewolf myth - because we've all, as a result of alcohol, drugs, exhaustion, rage, gone off the leash and come to regret it later. I appeal to this psychologically - the unleashed id - but with a biological cause; I'm hopefully making possible supernatural circumstances.”

Thinking Causes Results Gone Regret Circumstances Drug Myth Alcohol Rage Hopefully Relate Appeals Werewolf Exhaustion Unleashed Leashes

Author:Benjamin Percy

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

Fate Music Is Concern Errors Exile Exhaustion Without Music Life Without Music

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Trying Expectations Setting Settings Exhaustion Junkie

Author:Stephen Colbert

“A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.”

Source: On War

“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.”

Thinking Men Different Earth Desire Deals Strategy Frustration Fear Of Death Exhaustion

Author:Camille Henrot

“[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.”

World Enough Universe Photography Photographer Bother Exhaustion Postmodern

Book:Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989

Source: Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989

“Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.”

Brain Muscles Weary Exhaustion

Book:Strange Places

Source: Strange Places

“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?”

Problem Waiting Steps Cases Environment Resources Solve Nuclear Secure Latter Our Future Holocaust Pollution Selection Exhaustion Explicit Overpopulation

Author:B. F. Skinner

“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.”

Way Art Performances Sick Everyday Intimate Encounters Pretending Cynicism Exhaustion Reviewers So Sick

Author:Randall Mann

“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.”

Needs Home Guy Week New York Emotional Flying Exhaustion

Author:Peter Jacobson

“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.”

Knows World Way Humans Winning Natural Human Beings Protect Limits Dignity Institutions Corporations Rebellion Collapse Exploits Natural World Exhaustion

Author:Chris Hedges

“Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.”

Trying Moving Study Disease Folks Medical Symbols Judgement Comparison Perfectionism Exhaustion Researchers Status Symbol

Author:Brené Brown

“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.”

Firsts Amount Pressure Constant Albums Speed Enormous Touring Exhaustion

Author:Norah Jones

“About five years ago, I fainted from exhaustion. I hit my head on my desk. I broke my cheekbone and got four stitches on my right eye. It started me on this journey of rediscovering sleep and balance and integrating my life. I think everyone should stop and reassess their lives before you hit your head on your desk.”

Thinking Should Years Eye Sleep Five Four Journey Balance Years Ago Broke Five Years Desks Exhaustion Integrating Stitches Cheekbones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's life to the work-watch-spend treadmill. People who know in their hearts that it's wrong to treat the planet and whole groups of people as disposable. People who are challenging the bogus stories we've been fed for years and are writing their own about hope and love and working together to build a better future for everyone.”

“The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's amazing if you can do that, but for that to be seen as the norm of motherhood, that women are always supposed to give until they're exhausted, you know, to always take on all these burdens - and it's why I'm so, you know, in favor of protecting all of the abortion legislation we've got, to give women the right to go, I can't do that. I can't do it. I'm too tired.”

Ifs Knows Giving I Can Mother Can Do Tired Burden Motherhood Favors Abortion Legislation Exhausted Norm Exhaustion Being A Mother

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.”

World Firsts Heart Kind Fun Parent Path Imagine Rocks Ordinary Related Exhaustion Being A Parent Ordinary World Family First

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.”

Way Mind Sound Results Quality Emotional Balance Skills Training Inner Peace Pursuit Endless Pleasant Recipes Exhaustion Benevolent Cultivating Training The Mind Emotional Balance

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“And let's not forget that internally, we are, like all dying empires, being hollowed out from the inside in terms of infrastructure. I live near Philly, I live in Princeton. The school system is shattered with closings and layoffs. Libraries are being shuttered. Head Start is being cut back. Unemployment benefits are not being extended. You know, we've reached a point of both physical and emotional exhaustion.”

School Term Forget Cutting Dying Emotional Library Exhaustion Head Start Layoff

Author:Chris Hedges

“I wandered around not knowing what I was doing in The Great Waldo Pepper and feeling pretty lost, and they rightly cut my part down. I don't think I was in very good emotional shape. I think I was a bit of a mess. I'd done about six movies back-to-back, and was in a state of complete exhaustion.”

Thinking Done Feelings Cutting Emotional Very Good Mess Exhaustion

Author:Margot Kidder

“People don't get that being a musician is a job, they don't get what the work takes. And that's just because you're living a dream, so everyone who's observing it from the outside can't really empathize with how much work it is because you're fortunate. And it's a kind of competition with yourself to stay away from all of the excess, whether it's booze or drugs or just the late nights with the addiction to watching the sun rise in some weird part of the world. But when you meet the other musicians, there's generally a spiritual exhaustion that you connect with.”

People World Kind Dream Spiritual Night Drug Musician Competition Addiction Observing Exhaustion Late Night Sun Rise

Author:Kevin Drew

“I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved one with cancer, and she's of course sad, but also telling the most disturbingly morbid jokes and puns. I love that, there's so much humanity in being able to mock fate and hardship.”

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Author:Gail Simone

“The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be as honest and vulnerable as possible, as one would in a diary. As a child I used to write my diaries backwards in cursive. No one else could understand them. I think it trained me to be bold and admit feelings that I might feel otherwise scared to write down.”

Thinking Writing Trying Kind Children Feelings Honest Scared Vulnerable Backwards Exhaustion Delirium

Author:Jill Magid

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”

Life Hate Subjects Photography Picks Photographer Photograph Theme Working It Life And Love Exhaustion Photography By Photographers

Author:Dorothea Lange

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

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Author:John Lubbock

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

Thinking Want Literature Quality Quantity Best Work Exhaustion Dregs Quantity And Quality Quality Not Quantity

Author:George MacDonald

“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.”

Has Beens Said Stories Gay Claims Related Toms Attorney Exhaustion Cruise Suing

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired.”

Long Lost Worst Periods Capacity Tired Former Manifestation Exhaustion Physically Tired

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

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

“… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.”

Humans Form Being Human Exhaustion

Author:John Irving

“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.”

Ifs Needs Hands Together Certain Dark Sea Lucky Summer Seasons Absolutes Seven Eight Swim Exhaustion Lucky You Hands Together

Book:Sleeping in Flame

Source: Sleeping in Flame

“Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.”

Thinking Knows Sometimes Hard Fall Given Christ Hours Watches Knowing Comedy Missing Jokes Rain Window Heavy London Staring Flats Nerves Not Knowing Tire Exhaustion

Author:Martin Amis

“The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.”

Mean Used Jesus Mankind Burden Heavy Cease Release Crush Load Toil Exhaustion Meekness

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his body, forever required to think about his blisters, his exhaustion; when he runs he feels his weight, his age, more conscious than ever of himself and of his time of life. This all changes when man delegates the faculty of speed to a machine: from then on, his own body is outside the process, and he gives over to a speed that is noncorporeal, nonmaterial, pure speed, speed itself, ecstasy speed.”

Thinking Men Giving Feels Body Running Age Form Process Forever Revolution Pure Conscious Machines Weight Speed Faculty Ecstasy Runners Exhaustion Delegates Blisters

Author:Milan Kundera

“A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where she's hidden it. Where she's stored the good stuff. She needs to keep gnawing at it, even after all the meat seems to be gone. When a student of mine says (okay, whines) that she's impatient, or tired, or the worst: isn't it good enough? this may be harsh, but she loses just a little bit of my respect. Because there is no room for impatience, or exhaustion, or self-satisfaction, or laziness. All of these really mean, simply, that the inner censor has won the day.”

“Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.”

“Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him--but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone. She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again.”

Ifs Knows Behinds Gone Love You Late Understood Doctors Distance Terror Instant Too Late Shore Exhaustion Overpowering

Book:CliffsComplete The Awakening

Source: CliffsComplete The Awakening

“We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly.”

Source: Christianity and Culture

“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 sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed”

Stills Wanted Path Sweet Walking Unique Filled Chaos Bounds Like Me Life Changing Midst Goddess Smooth Exhaustion Craziness Untamed Potholes

Author:P. C. Cast

“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.”

Bigs Together Film Faces Tears Leaving Spread Ran Frustration Cheeks Ruined Wrinkles Exhaustion Streaming Dripping Together Again

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.”

Mind Eye Together Lasts Faces Memories Boys Tears Flow Caught Spread Stuck Instance His Eyes Village Funeral Worn Smooth Distress Last Time Caught Up Wrinkles Exhaustion Streaming Gloss

Book:The Stranger

Source: The Stranger

“What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he was close to completing and so that's what he was doing: getting me to describe things to him, so they'd really sink in, so that maybe during those sleepless nights, with the drugs and the paint and the exhaustion, the line would blur between what were my memories and what were his.”

Wanted Remember Night Lines Memories Childhood Drug Paint Exhaustion Blur Completing Sleepless Nights Never Let Me Go

Book:Never Let Me Go

Source: Never Let Me Go

“Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.”

Sleep Lovers Touched Exhaustion Giddy

Book:Paint It Black

Source: Paint It Black

“This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He'd felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was - was it only the exhaustion of the past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?”

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood

“She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's like the perfect kitchen." I fought not to smile. This was the delirium. She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness. If you see someone spouting nonsense to themselves in an alleyway in Tarbean, odds are they're not actually crazy, just a sweet-eater deranged by too much denner. "A kitchen?" "Yes," she said. "Everything matches and the sugar bowl is right where it should be.”

Ifs Should Said Hands Faces Perfect Too Much Crazy Sweet Lays Profound Kitchen Nonsense Sugar Fades Cheeks Odds Bowls Sweetest Exhaustion Unconsciousness Delirium Deranged Alleyways

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“This summer-sweet night is only one minute upon one minute upon another Beautiful cacophony, sugar upon lips, dancing to exhaustion I thought of you, before this minute upon another minute upon another Until, numb, my lips fell onto the mouth of another, and I was undone. ~from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter which is a fictional book in Ballad: A gathering of faerie”

Source: Ballad: A Gathering of Faerie