Quotes About Exhausting

I was told before my first trip that no city in the world offered the dreams you could have sleeping in Havana. But nobody warned me that Havana also always feels like an exhausting nightmare that never quite fulfills the promise of what it's threatening you with.

There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.

As you keep pulling back the layers of how deeply rooted anti-blackness and white supremacy are in this country, it is exhausting, and it is traumatizing.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Seducing innocent virgins is such a tiring venture." Christian lifted a brow. "Are we back to that?

It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.

Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

Shopping for clothes is time consuming, it's tiring, and it can feel like a waste of an autumn afternoon.

It's so exhausting in the pocket taking shots when you know I can go. I don't want to take that shot and maybe make a bigger play. To dedicate and discipline your mind that 'I have to find a way, that's the only way I can learn... ' That's the challenge.

When I started in comics, people were always trying to classify me as either/or. Either a writer who appealed to women or a writer who appealed to guys. This need to categorize was just exhausting.

As any showrunner will tell you, it is crushing work. It is around the clock. It is like a monastic commitment that you make.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.

JFK apparently felt genuine sympathy for his 1960 presidential opponent Richard Nixon. He felt that, with Nixon's frequent shifts in political philosophy and reinventions, he must have to decide which Nixon he will be at each stop. This, Kennedy reasoned, must be exhausting.

Trying to save Western society was exhausting.

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.