#exhaustion

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. ↗

— Tony Campolo

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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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The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

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

— Naima Adedapo

#after #believing #exhaustion #just #push

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. ↗

— Norah Jones

#amount #constant #enormous #everything #exhaustion

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#century #exhaustion #experienced #first #forgetting

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#built #cause #cents #day #exhaustion

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

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