Burned Out Quotes

• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• It's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Neil Young

  Death, Running, Believe

  "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

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• For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Children, Prodigies, Burned

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• And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

  Lee Majors

  Littles, Kind, Late

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• I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

  Lee Majors

  Children, Florida, Years

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Rocks, Guitar, Piano

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• Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

  Gil Gerard

  Couple, Golf, Years

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• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Years, Long

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• Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?

  Tommy Lasorda

  Girl, Sports, Life And Love

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• I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!

  Harvey Fierstein

  Couple, Years, People

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• One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Men, Talking, Water

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• I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.

  Clancy Brown

  Lovely, Highlander, Famous Last Words

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• The function of man is to live, not to exist.

  Jack London

  Short Life, Men, Atoms

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

  Kurt Cobain

  Self, Miserable, Highlander

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• It is better to burn out then fade away

  Neil Young

  Burn Out, Fades, Fade Away

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  Jack London

  Sleep, Atoms, Writing Words

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

  Jack London

  London, Meteors, Sparks

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Weekend, Cereal, Opposites

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.64, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

  Jodi Picoult

  Flames, Long, Lasts

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Bitter, Burned, Ifs

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• I like to remind teachers that even though they're all overwhelmed and overloaded, and it's easy to get burned out, it really is about the kids. It only takes one good teacher to change a life - one time, and one book. That's what happened when I was a kid. I had one good teacher that came in at the right time and turned me into a writer. So never lose sight - you could be that teacher.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord

  Simon Van Booy

  First Love, Men, Fire

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.132, Oneworld Publications

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Patience, Time, Children

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