Top 232 Exhaustion Quotes & Sayings

It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

A champion is someone who sweats to exhaustion, even when no one else is watching

A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

Exhaustion and exasperation are frequently the handmaidens of legislative decision.

I lived in New York, and I was the guy who was flying home almost every week, so there was a physical exhaustion and an emotional exhaustion for me, and a need to be home more.

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.

The antidote to exhaustion isn't rest. It's wholeheartedness.

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

I have an overactive brain, and as a result of that, I can really get in my own mind. So I like to try and exercise it to the point of exhaustion.

As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

The exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom.

The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

Family vacations are the kind of enterprises you embark upon with hope and optimism, and return with a lot of dirty laundry and suffering extreme exhaustion.

We Americans are living a lifestyle of exhaustion. We don't have time for ourselves, much less for each other and our children.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

Evie wanted to cry. From fear. From exhaustion, yes. But mostly from the cruel uselessness, the damned stupid arbitrariness of it all.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

I close my eyes and black out the day. The exhaustion of living through it, surviving.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

It dawned on me at some point that our music makes certain people happy - I never thought we'd have that effect and it's really gratifying and humbling. My least favorite is the exhaustion that comes with traveling a lot, the touring related exhaustion. And the crazy thing is that we've all been doing this for years and your body never gets used to it - you always feel messed up. But it's a good problem to have.

Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

In politics, exhaustion and attrition need to be overcome, not indulged.

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

I like when things are crazy. Something good comes out of exhaustion.

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

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

The downfall of civilized states tends to come not from the direct assaults of foes, but from internal decay combined with the consequences of exhaustion in war.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

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

Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.

There's a certain exhaustion that sets in when screenwriters are approaching sequels, and they start to lean on crutches - those same old wacky characters!

To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

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.

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think. And there's an exhaustion that happens on a film set - an exhaustion that translates into a relaxation and helps me to live in the moment, in the performance I'm giving and what's happening around me.

I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.

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

I fear drama more than films. The amount of work and exhaustion are incomparable.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.