I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit. — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
“It is my fate, it seems, to fall privy to rare and splendid vistas in a state of exhaustion too profound to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden. — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. — John Irving Copy Share Image
I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving. — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
“All she felt was mind-numbing exhaustion, and a desperate yearning for the sweet forgetfulness of sleep.” — William Lavender Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if you are nervous, it could actually turn out to be a manifestation of your exhaustion. The point is that any… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
[Postmodern photography] implies the exhaustion of the image universe: it suggests that a photographer can find more than enough images already existing… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
“Finally, individuals with severe pathological fatigue might experience states that are very different from what a healthy individual experiences when fatigued.” — Leonard A. Jason Copy Share Image
It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Before the final battle in 'Poison Princess,' Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“There was hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be… — Steven Laffoley Copy Share Image
The men are walking. They are fifty feet apart, for dispersal. Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary, as you… — Ernie Pyle Copy Share Image
Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“I’m one of those introverts with well-honed social skills, and I have even danced on the occasional table, but I have felt… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer’s block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting… — Sue Isle Copy Share Image
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She reached up and lay her hand on my cheek. "You have the sweetest face," she said, looking at me dreamily. "It's… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Oh, sweet little boy, beloved little girl, you are so overwhelmed by life sometimes, I know, by the enormity of it all,… — Jeff Foster Copy Share Image
“Endings are abstruse, mystic and unreal. They are but depleted beginnings purposed to be substituted with newer ones.A transition of outlook and… — Chirag Tulsiani Copy Share Image
A writer with her work needs to be like a dog with a bone all the time. She needs to know where… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Homo Defessus – Never before in human history has so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image