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Quotes About Exhausting

One of the sad realities of being a parent is that the same stuff you know is exciting, educational, and enriching in your child'slife is often messy, smelly and exhausting to deal with.
~ Joyce Maynard
They got me busier than a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest.
~ Dolly Parton
But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
From the stories she'd told, Shar had a very broad dating pool, which included ghosts, elemental forces, and, once, a pansexual quasar. Exhausting, she'd said. Don't date anything that has a radioactive corona.
~ Jes Battis
And it will be like an injection, a replenishment coming into my set-up. I say to myself: 'I am normal, it's okay to be me, it's all right, you're going back to work soon, going to be back in your own home; you go back up there again and try and perform.' It's exhausting.
~ Andrew Morton
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
~ Ang Lee
We're all supposed to be open about mental health these days. Very sympathetic. But the reality of the bloody thing, the person's self-obsession, the relentless movement, like they're constantly wired, the tedious repetition of paranoid thoughts, that hasn't changed. You can't know just how exhausting severe depression can be for other people until you've experienced it.
~ Ann Cleeves
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
~ George Orwell
Grief is exhausting. When you learn - maybe through my age or experience - trying to harness the energy, whatever it is, muted energy or a concentration to find yourself in a place? You try to use it for when it's really necessary and can arrive.
~ Ciaran Hinds
Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.
~ Jon Tenney
That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.
~ Megan Follows
When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.
~ Lucy Punch
To be a showrunner and a director is beyond exhausting.
~ Vikramaditya Motwane
Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.
~ Jodie Foster
I get anxiety and distressed from external stimuli quite easily, so if I'm in a constant state of self-protection, it's exhausting.
~ Hannah Gadsby
One mellows almost without realizing it's a compensation of age, because anger is exhausting.
~ Robert Galbraith
This kind of search in the dark, with its tense desire, lasting for years, full of foreboding, with it's exhausting change form aspiration to frustration and it's final breakthrough to lucidity, all of this you only know properly if you experienced it.
~ Albert Einstein
I see," said Mma Ramotswe. Somehow, she could not find the energy to say much more than that; this man was just too exhausting to contradict.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
understanding history as a form of inquiry—not as something easy or comforting but as something demanding and exhausting—was central to the nation's founding.
~ Jill Lepore
Service without spirituality is exhausting and hopeless. But . . . spirituality without service is barren and selfish.
~ Joanna Weaver
Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.
~ Mara Wilson
One-day cricket is a lot more draining because it's a lot faster. You don't get as much break. You are running a lot harder.
~ Ben Stokes
The endless definitions for feminism are exhausting. It's this, it isn't this, it's only this if you're this, etc.
~ Cazzie David