Exhaustion Quote by Octavia Butler Download Open image “There's no narcotic like exhaustion.” — Octavia Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exhaustion Narcotics
… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human. — John Irving Copy Share Image
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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
War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time. — Shanola Hampton Copy Share Image
Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
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I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools,… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.” — Charlie Higson 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 consequences of… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. — Elissa Schappell Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined… — Immanuel Kant 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 amazing if… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the… — Anonymous 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 exhaustion and… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player. In the endgame, the most common errors, besides those resulting from ignorance of theory,… — Pal Benko Copy Share Image