#exhaust

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor? ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#electricity #energy #exhaustion #futility #sherlock-holmes

Maturity A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose, I shall have, till my single body grows         Inaccurate, tired; Then I shall start to feel the backward pull Take over, sickening and masterful —         Some say, desired. And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink, As if at pain; for it is pain, to think         This pantomime Of compensating act and counter-act, Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,         My ablest time. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#maturity #stasis #life

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#americans #decline #defeat #docility #exhaustion

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#death #exhausted #fighting #five #i

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#come #dies #exhaust #gold #guise

Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#best #between #day #difficult #exhausting

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

— Laura Hillenbrand

#been #biggest #biggest problem #completely #exhaustion

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. ↗

— Richard King

#exhaustion #financially #funds #i #i am

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#never #ones #passions #private #public

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really. ↗

— Brandon Lee

#certain #die #everything #get #happens