Exhaustion Quotes

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. (Thomas Carlyle)
As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting. View quote
Brian Ferneyhough
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit; Too close immediacy an exhaustion. View quote
Theodore Roethke
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. View quote
Susan Sontag
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy. View quote
Emil Cioran
There's no narcotic like exhaustion. View quote
Octavia Butler
I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to set the other side. View quote
George Mallory
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
If the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products. (Kenneth Boulding)
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. View quote
Christopher McDougall
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand
Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion. View quote
Conan O'Brien
The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking. View quote
Mia Hamm
Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision. View quote
Barber Conable
A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching. View quote
Bas Rutten
Mercedes ... this is the exhaustion of death. Mariano - back to my room. View quote
José de San Martín
In particular, a free market and capitalism, both subject to state control, are now being permitted and are developing; on the other hand, the socialised state enterprises are being put on what is called a profit basis, i. e., they are being reorganised on commercial lines, which, in view of the general cultural backwardness and exhaustion of the country, will, to a greater or lesser degree, inevitably give rise to the impression among the masses that there is an antagonism of interest between the management of the different enterprises and the workers employed in them. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Admidst the colossal ruin of the country and the exhaustion of the forces of the proletariat, by a series of almost superhuman efforts, we are tackling the most difficult job: laying the foundations for really existing socialist economy, for the regular exchange of commodities (or, more correctly, exchange of products) between industry and agriculture. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
As Cioran correctly points out, a principal danger of being overcivilized is that one all to easily relapses, out of sheer exhaustion and the unsatisfied need to be "stimulated,” into a vulgar and passive barbarism. Thus, "the man who unmasks his fictions” through an indiscriminate pursuit of the lucidity that is promoted by modern liberal culture "renounces his own resources and, in a sense, himself. Consequently, he will accept other fictions which will deny him, since they will not have cropped up from his own depth.” There, he concludes, "no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.”. (Susan Sontag)
Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life's drama, a trail of smoke and blood - all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you. View quote
Emil Cioran
Loving does not necessarily mean liking. But it still is loving, yes - totally, completely, utterly. Take the key of wisdom and unlock your own heart. Then let people in one by one. Listen to them, with full attention, with all your mind, heart, body and soul, unto exhaustion. And look! - the exhaustion will be lifted, and you will be able to listen still more. Yes, love must be communicated person to person; otherwise it will not be effective. View quote
Catherine Doherty
Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. View quote
Dorothea Lange
Since World War Two, Britain's elite has suffered from a collective collapse of cultural nerve. Many things contributed: postwar exhaustion, the collapse of the British Empire (and therefore of national purpose), and post-colonial flagellatory guilt of the kind that white western liberals have made their specialty. This left the British establishment vulnerable to the revolutionary ideology of the New Left, at the core of which lay a hatred of western society. As a consequence, the British elite decided not only that the British nation was an embarrassment but also that the very idea of the nation was an anachronism. View quote
Melanie Phillips