Exhaustion Quotes

• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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• Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

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• The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Sports, Life And Love

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• I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy.

  Claude Monet

  Stupid, Long, Bed

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

  John Lubbock

  Motivational, Happiness, Letting Go

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• Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.

  Dorothea Lange

  Life, Photography, Hate

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• It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

  George MacDonald

  Thinking, Quality Not Quantity, Literature

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• Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

  Tony Campolo

  Spiritual, Mind, Facts

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• The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest.
  It's wholeheartedness.

  David Whyte

  Inspirational, Wholeheartedness, Antidote

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• The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

  Albert Einstein

  Dark, Years, Light

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.289, Broadway Books

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• Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs us of our skills, our judgment, and blinds us to creative solutions.

  Harvey Mackay

  Skills, Creative, Fool

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• Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Effort, Gains

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Wonder Woman, Saying Yes, Worn

  Twitter post from Oct 14, 2016

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• Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Exercise, Sea, Infinite

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

  Oswald Chambers

  Trying, Way, Impossible

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.59, Discovery House

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• If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Mountain, Speed

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I've ever found.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Jesus, Frustration, Tangled

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 15, 2016

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• We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

  Erica Jong

  Cynical, Morality, Monogamy

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.110, Penguin

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• … but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

  John Irving

  Being Human, Form, Humans

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• The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

  Susan Sontag

  Men, History, Becoming

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• Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

  Barber Conable

  Decision, Exasperation

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• An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Artist, Hands, Gone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.386, Harvard University Press

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• Evidence exhausts the truth.

  Georges Braque

  Evidence

  "Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde". Book edited by Charles Juliet (pp. 60-61), 2009.

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• Don't want to slump over the oars.

  James Genn

  Slumps, Want, Oar

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• I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.

  Jay Asher

  Fall, Ivy, Want

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Penguin

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