The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work. — Gordon T. Smith 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
“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
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about… — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
“Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable… — Dee Remy Copy Share Image
Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick /… — Randall Mann Copy Share Image
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Jem leaned closer against the chair, staring into the fire. “Better it were my hands,” he said. Will shook his head. Exhaustion… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“To exhaustion and beyond they prayed, to that glittering place where the flesh dies and is born again, where all is agony,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under… — Henry Handel Richardson Copy Share Image
I wandered around not knowing what I was doing in The Great Waldo Pepper and feeling pretty lost, and they rightly cut… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
“I reel in an uncanny intoxication of emotions, on minute bewildered and then frightened then the next, I swing from exhaustion to… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Aren't you, like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Ernie Pyle, who was with them as usual, wrote: “They were dead weary, as a person could tell even when looking at… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“The door across from his bed was open, revealing the great room beyond—clean and empty and bathed in sunshine. The sheets he… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this… — B. C. Forbes 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
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to… — Anonymous 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
“Before forty, you think that exhaustion is something like a long-lasting hangover. But at forty you learn all about it. Even your… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I was unable to walk for a whole week after that, so much did the race take out of me. But it… — Emil Zatopek Copy Share Image
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
“He had seen the same mixture of exhaustion and fight in Russell’s face. It was the poison of war spreading its sickness.” — Jennifer Leeper 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
“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
[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
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
I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without… — Alton Tobey 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
“Inez looked tired but hopeful. She was developing bags not only under her eyes but over them. If nothing else, the Revolution… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image