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Quotes about Exhaustion

Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs
— William Faulkner
In my opinion it's a shame that there is so much work in the world. One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours — all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.
— William Faulkner
If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9
— Leonard Sweet
I clung to my Bible and prayed until I felt utterly exhausted. Mid-morning, after reading, weeping, and praying for what seemed like hours, I fell asleep. The long days and sleepless nights had taken their toll, and my body demanded some rest even if my mind fought against it.
— Janette Oke
I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.
— DL Moody
I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
— Etty Hillesum
It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.
— Ashton Kutcher
If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.
— Charles Spurgeon
one gets so hopelessly tired of deception.
— Graham Greene
As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.
— John Knox
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
I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.
— Herman Melville