95 Quotes About Exhaustion

Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.

Coming to the end of ourselves is one of the best ways that we can come to an understanding of ourselves.

A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows        Inaccurate, tired;Then I shall start to feel the backward pullTake 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 pantomimeOf compensating act and counter-act,Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,        My ablest time.- Maturity

For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

If your goal did not exhaust you on the way to achieving it, I doubt the credibility of the goal.

It is in the ‘exhaustion’ of getting to the goal that we too often forget the ‘elation’ of achieving the goal. And because that’s the case, too often we forfeit both.

Faith lets you see the possibility in every situation. Others may see a desert but what you see is a place where virtually everything can be grown.