Exhaustion Quotes

156 Exhaustion quotes by 144 unique authors

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion. — Erica Jong
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. — Elissa Schappell
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
The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe. — Robert Solow
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from… — Fritz Kreisler
What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you… — Peggy Noonan
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things. — Rudolf Steiner
I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have Alice in Wonderland conversation after Alice in Wonderland conversation until I died… — Connie Willis
Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your… — Jeff VanderMeer
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of… — Bill Moyers
The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying… — Masanobu Fukuoka
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness… — R. Scott Bakker
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push… — Dan Gable
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory, are… — Pal Benko
Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new… — William Henry Chamberlin
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion… — Brian Ferneyhough
Focusing on what we ought to do for God creates only frustration and exhaustion; focusing on what Jesus has done for us produces abundant fruit.… — J. D. Greear
Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep… — Bear Grylls
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you… — Robert M. Pirsig
It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would… — Alex Ferguson
When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion — Oprah Winfrey
Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the… — B. C. Forbes
A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching. — Bas Rutten
Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of… — Arthur Kroker
The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom. — James Hilton

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