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Quotes About Exhausted

But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again.
~ William Faulkner
Ich bin sehr müde. Einen zusammenhängenden Schlaf habe ich seit Wochen nicht gehabt. Unglaubhaft, aber ich könnt jetzt einschlafen. Kann ja nichts mehr verschieben, auch den Schlaf nicht. Ungut, übermüdet in den Tod zu gehen.
~ Christa Wolf
Great tracts of reindeer moss, for example: tiny stars and florets and inklings of an ancient flora growing on exhausted land. Crisp underfoot in summer, the stuff is like a patch of the arctic fallen into the world in the wrong place. Everywhere, there are bony shoulders and blades of flint. On wet mornings you can pick up shards knocked from flint cores by Neolithic craftsmen, tiny flakes of stone glowing in thin coats of cold water.
~ Helen Macdonald
But the liveliest attention was attracted by occurrences quite apart from, and unconnected with, the battle. It was as if the minds of these morally exhausted men found relief in everyday, commonplace occurrences.
~ Leo Tolstoy
My agent makes 10% of what you make. When your agent tells you to take a vacation, you know you're exhausted.
~ Bill Duke
As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.
~ Ana Navarro
Ayla had grown accustomed to quiet and solitude over the past years. The mere presence of another person, while relished, required some adjustment and accommodation, but the emotional upheavals of the day had left her drained and exhausted. She did not want to feel, or think about, or react to, the man who shared her cave. She only wanted to rest.
~ Jean M. Auel
He didn't know that panic was a survival trait, in extreme circumstances. When all else fails, and all rational means of finding a solution have been exhausted, panic takes over. And sometimes an irrational act becomes a solution the rational mind would never have thought of.
~ Jean M. Auel
After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.
~ Morley Safer
If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.
~ Dave Brubeck
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
~ Tom Berenger
The Hemulen slid down onto the grass completely exhausted. "Oh!" he moaned. "There has never been anything but trouble and danger since I came into the Moomin family.
~ Tove Jansson
even tries to snorkel under the plants, but when it comes up for air it gets blasted by a Repeater you've placed on a Lily Pad. Finally, the zombie wave stops. You collapse on the grass, exhausted. "Hey, anybody want to go swimming?" Matt asks. You think of the Tangle Kelp lurking under the water and shudder. "Um, I don't think that's a good
~ Unknown
But they were all too tired to kill anything, and after a moment the hippo splashed loudly into the river and submerged, probably congratulating itself on its impressive stealth.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Duša je najumorniji dio tijela.
~ Paul Bowles
All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.
~ Abigail Solomon-Godeau
What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on.
~ Dave Eggers
How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?
~ William Shakespeare
El nuevo amanecer encontró a la princesa heredera; al despertar, estaba agotada, y completamente vacía de sueños.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Her cackled speech began like dry branches crackling on a fire. Then, one by one, someone threw fireworks into the flames. It was surprising that such a colorless woman could bang and whoosh and kerplonk with such splendor. We were all exhausted when she finished, and enjoyed the brief silence.
~ Unknown
She'd had a bad day in a bad month in a worse year and was exhausted by the idea of getting hassled.
~ Holly Black
To those who have exhausted statecraft, nothing remains but the realm of pure thought.
~ Unknown
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
~ Honore de Balzac