“Exhaustion,” Dalinar said, “pain, suffering. This is what victory usually feels” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Destriers began to perish of exhaustion and exposure. “What is a knight without a horse?” men riddled. “A snowman with a sword.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“the exhaustion and mania of near-death popping in my brain like tiny bubbles.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give. — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split. — Naima Adedapo Copy Share Image
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. — Mia Hamm Copy Share Image
I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He… — Richard Estes Copy Share Image
The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
“I’m really tired”, you come to understand, is meaningless, giving the impression all will be well with a good rest and that… — Frances Ryan Copy Share Image
I can be so involved that I am no longer conscious of my needs or even of any pains. But there also… — Alton Tobey Copy Share Image
When struggling to get out of bed in the morning due to pain and exhaustion, the last thing on the priority list… — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
“It was an atmosphere of luxurious exhaustion, like a ripened, shedding rose, while all that waited outside wad the failing New York… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
“Depression—which often culminates in burnout—follows from overexcited, overdriven, excessive self-reference that has assumed destructive traits. The exhausted, depressive achievement-subject grinds itself down,… — Byung-Chul Han Copy Share Image
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
“The air in my home is heavy with my mom's unhappiness. And her exhaustion. And her sheer dissatisfaction with her life. And… — Laura Buzo Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I meet people ready for change. People who are fed up with the exhaustion that comes from devoting one's… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
“As he passed a hand over his eyes, I recalled the he could not have slept more than twenty hours in the… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
Over-working gets less done. We all have experienced this. We can push ourselves to exhaustion, but things get done with less attention,… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“An exhaustion came over her: the artificial weariness enforced upon someone who has many capabilities and is consistently prevented from using any… — Rachel Ingalls Copy Share Image
I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes, blown out on the trail; hunted like a… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Sorcha murmured a sleepy “goodnight” and passed out the moment her head touched the pillow. Resisting the urge to crawl into bed… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was… — Alonzo Mourning Copy Share Image
I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time… — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of… — George Leigh Mallory Copy Share Image
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting… — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
“It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch… — Elaine N. Aron Copy Share Image
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion. — Chip Heath Copy Share Image
The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the… — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
