#Exhaustion Quotes

“Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.”

“So shaken as we are, so wan with care,Find we a time for frighted peace to pantAnd breathe short-winded accents of new broilsTo be commenced in stronds afar remote.”

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consumeThe entire combustible world in one small roomAs though dried straw, and if we turn aboutThe bare chimney is gone black outBecause the work had finished in that flare.”

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”

“I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.”

“Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.”

“New York is a sucked orange.”

“For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.”

“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”

“When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion”

“Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.”

“I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.”

“A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging.”

“I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.”

“In Hamburg the waiters always had Preludin - and various other pills, but I remember Preludin because it was such a big trip - and they were all taking these pills to keep themselves awake, to work these incredible hours in this all-night place. And so the waiters, when they'd see the musicians falling over with tiredness or with drink, they'd give you the pill. You'd take the pill, you'd be talking, you'd sober up, you could work almost endlessly - until the pill wore off, then you'd have to have another.”

“He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.”

“Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.”

“Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.”

“I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.”

“It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.”

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

“I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.”

“My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.”

“Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any”

“I feel exhausted if I teach too long.”

“Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.”