Some books claiming to be exhaustive are only exhausting…

Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds…

— Louis Althusser

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

— Max Beerbohm

We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.

— Thomas Mann

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

— Brandon Sanderson

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

— Earl Wilson

“Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.”

— Roland Barthes

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

— Brian Eno

“...only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”

— Thomas Mann

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the…

— Marianne Williamson

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol -…

— Brené Brown

People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and…

— Tony Benn

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

— John Irving

“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too…

— Audie Murphy

“Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.”

— Charlie Higson

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley