Quotes of Exhaustion - somelinesforyou

“ If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast. ”

- George Herbert

“ And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end: and much study is a weariness of the flesh. ”

- Bible

“ Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth Finds the down pillow hard. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Our great weariness comes from work not done. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Happiness... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks. ”

- David Grayson

“ Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil. ”

- Lord Byron

“ A woman's lips are a key to her character, and to-day lips have a firmer and more resolute line, for they shape words of command, laugh at danger, and with a smile suppress weariness and pain. ”

- Unknown

“ I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States. ”

- Jack Brooks

“ One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. ”

- E. V. Lucas

“ Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Sleep - kinsman thou to death and trance and madness. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy who have called thee so. ”

- Robert Southey

“ For some must watch, while some must sleep; thus runs the world away. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“ I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes. ”

- George Leigh Mallory

“ The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching. ”

- Anson Dorrance

“ so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again. ”

- Joseph Heller

“ Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death. ”

- David Adger

“ The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking. ”

- Anson Dorrance

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay. ”

- Arthur Kroker

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

- Susan Sontag

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

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate. ”

- Dorothea Lange

“ Thats because, like everyone else on the planet, you believed that time would teach you to grow closer to God. But time doesnt teach; it merely brings us a sense of weariness and of growing older. ”

- Paulo Coelho

“ Our greatest weariness comes from work not done. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. ”

- George MacDonald
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