#exhaust

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ↗

— William Styron

#exhausted #experiences #great #great book #leave

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#become #before #continued #described #exhausted

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

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

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

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#being #exhausting #insincere #most #thing

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting. ↗

— Gavin Rossdale

#daytime #england #exhausting #gigs #jobs

On an exhausted field, only weeds grow. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#field #grow #only #weeds

In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at once falling under its own weight as much as that of its enemy. It was a collective death and not a matter of bravery or even strength, and once it was down it was finished as a battle. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#battle #beast #bravery #collaps #collective

I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me ↗

— Tegan Quin

#happy #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #wake-up-exhausted