Exhausted Quotes - Page 21

• When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.

  Jim Butcher

  Journey, Thinking, Jumping

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.256, Penguin

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• Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.

  Thomas Cahill

  Book, Hero, Europe

  FaceBook post by Thomas Cahill from Mar 07, 2015

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• We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

  Brené Brown

  Children, Stressed, Adults

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• I don't know about you, but I have to sleep. I had a long night and I'm exhausted." She was rather tired, too. But as she slid her gaze to the fake leather sofa, she realized it would never fit both of them. Hunter grinned at her. "You take the couch, I'll sleep on the floor." "Can you do that?" "I've slept in worse places." "Yeah, but don't you need a coffin?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Tired, Sleep, Night

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Night Pleasures”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Men, Thinking

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• Sometimes, when you briefly glance in Hollywood, there's a tendency to play it in a very "Yes, she's exhausted, and yes, she's working, and yes, she's taking care of her kids full time, and yes, she's a mom, but she's also in a great mood all
  the time."

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Kids, Play

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Dream, Tired, Black

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• I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.

  Eddie Vedder

  Hard Times, Trying, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

  Charles Bukowski

  Sometimes, Feels

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.346, Zondervan

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• Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was and, man, I was exhausted. But she is 17 months now. Shes running, shes been running for a long time. Shes inspired me a great deal for the record. She even goes Wow Daddy! when I play to her.

  Gerard Way

  Running, Dad, Men

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• The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as the soil is not exhausted. Alas for human culture! little is to be expected of a nation, when the vegetable mould is exhausted, and it is compelled to make manure of the bones of its fathers. There the poet sustains himself merely by his own superfluous fat, and the philosopher comes down on his marrow-bones.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Father, Rome

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• More and more details coming out now about spoiled rich kid Osama bin Laden. Time reports this week he was one of 52 kids. Mother must be exhausted. This guy inherited $80 million at age 13 and has since expanded it to $300 million through construction, smart investments and gas and oil investments. This way, he can use the money in his war against capitalism.

  Jay Leno

  Mother, War, Smart

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• The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.

  Washington Irving

  Mother, World, Faces

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• I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours.

  China Machado

  Lying, Night, Naps

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• I am a zombie fan, but all of the zombie stories Ive enjoyed started when the dead rose and ended three days later with everybody looking exhausted. I was thinking, What happens in 20 years?

  Mira Grant

  Thinking, Years, Rose

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• If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.

  Bill Nichols

  Spurs, Done, Fields

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Ennui, Knows

  Quoted in Hesketh Pearson, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)

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• America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

  William Pfaff

  Ideas, America, Problem

  "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 11, 1989.

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• The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new Platonists; whilst they exhausted their strength in the verbal disputes of metaphysics, attempted to explore the secrets of the invisible world, and studied to reconcile Aristotle with Plato, on subjects of which both these philosophers were as ignorant as the rest of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Plato, History, Secret

  Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.449

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• To worry is to become accessible, unwittingly accessible. And once you worry you cling to anything out of desperation; and once you cling you are bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whoever or whatever you are clinging to.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Worry, Desperation, Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

  Eve Ensler

  Pain, Ifs

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

  John Chadwick

  Doe, Mathematics, Stage

  John Chadwick (2014). “The Decipherment of Linear B”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

  Guy Davenport

  Art, Attention, Failing

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• One day, I went to a soba restaurant outside town, and while I was waiting for the zarusoba I opened an old graph magazine. There was a picture of an exhausted, lonely kneeling woman who wore a checked patterned yukata after the tradegy of a large earthquake. With the intensity of my chest ready to burn up, I fell in love with that poor woman. I also felt a horrifying desire for her. Maybe tragedy and desire are back to back to one another.

  Osamu Dazai

  Lonely, Earthquakes, Waiting

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• Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may happen that never again in your whole life will you have such a chance to ask for the forgiveness for your sins.

  John Climacus

  Forgiveness, Fire, Long

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