Exhaustion Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  People, Looks, Laziness

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• The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

  Robert Solow

  Events, World, Natural

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• 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 sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Men, Numbers, Roaring

  Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Not only during the ascent, but also during the descent my willpower is dulled. The longer I climb the less important the goal
  seems to me, the more indifferent I become to myself. My attention
  has diminished, my memory is weakened. My mental fatigue is now
  greater than the bodily. It is so pleasant to sit doing nothing - and therefore so dangerous. Death through exhaustion is like death
  through freezing - a pleasant one.

  Reinhold Messner

  Memories, Goal, Important

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• 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 have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

  Peggy Noonan

  Strong, Feelings, Sometimes

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• That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Lying, Roots, Unseen

  Rudolf Steiner, Max Gysi (2011). “Outline of Occult Science”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

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• 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 of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era.

  Connie Willis

  Sleep, Idyllic, Wonderland

  Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.206, Bantam

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• 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 novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Islands, Balance

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• To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

  Jacob Epstein

  Thinking, Ends, Impotence

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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• 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 exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

  Arthur Kroker

  Space, Black, Hollywood

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

  James Hilton

  Passion

  James Hilton (2016). “LOST HORIZON - The Legend of Shangri-La: Adventure Classic”, p.131, e-artnow

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• Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of heat, cessation of motion and exhaustion of the potential energy of the material Universe

  Lord Kelvin

  Energy, Heat, Tendencies

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• Glory is sacrifice, glory is exhaustion, glory is having nothing left to give.

  N.D. Wilson

  Sacrifice, Giving, Glory

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• I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

  Deena Kastor

  Training, Adore, Hard

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• I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Morning, Children, Fighting

  Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

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• I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

  Amy Poehler

  Tired, Talking, Tired Of Life

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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• We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Land, Yield

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Data, Omnipotence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• 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, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Erosion

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.103, Penguin

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• For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Years, Mammals

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• The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

  Emile Durkheim

  Art, Political, Sound

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

  Penelope Cruz

  Mind, Body, Too Much

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• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  Naima Adedapo

  Believe, Splits, Able

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• The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Years, Lasts, Problem

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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