#exhausted

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. ↗

— Albert Camus

#always #exhausted #love #really #reverence

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#demands #enough #exhausted #explained #flop

I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted. ↗

— Geri Halliwell

#exhausted #i #know #myself #prop

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#being #exhausted #fun #i #i think

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#because #dangerous #exhausted #falls #find

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. ↗

— David Leavitt

#bitter #childlike #exhausted #figure #having