Welcome to Exhausted Quotes, a collection of poignant and relatable expressions capturing the essence of exhaustion in its various forms. From the weariness that comes after a long day’s work to the emotional exhaustion of navigating life’s complexities, these quotes encapsulate the universal experience of feeling drained, depleted, and in need of rest. In a world that often glorifies busyness and productivity, it’s important to acknowledge and honor our moments of exhaustion as a natural part of the human experience.
Within the pages of this compilation, you’ll find words that resonate deeply with anyone who has felt the weight of fatigue settle in their bones. Whether you’re seeking solace in knowing you’re not alone in your exhaustion or simply craving validation for your need to recharge, these quotes offer a comforting reminder that it’s okay to prioritize self-care and listen to the signals your body and mind are sending. So take a moment to pause, breathe, and immerse yourself in the wisdom shared by those who have traversed the weary paths of life before us. Explore the quotes below, and may you find solace, inspiration, and perhaps even a newfound perspective on the beauty that can be found in moments of exhaustion.
I don’t think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques. Steve Albini
I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March. Tom Berenger
They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It’s unthinkable. Barry Pepper
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
He who talks more is sooner exhausted. Lao Tzu
There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression. Winona Ryder
As long as tides of war are in our favor, the United States will never stop fighting. As a consequence, the war will continue for several years, during which materiel will be exhausted, vessels and arms will be damaged, and they can be replaced only with great difficulties. Isoroku Yamamoto
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted. John C. Maxwell
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. Carl Friedrich Gauss
I’m not on the run from anything and I’m not at all clear about what I’m running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I’m totally exhausted. Fiona Shaw
Time extracts various values from a painter’s work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. Henri Matisse
I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can’t do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I’m exhausted and feel like I’m running in fumes. Marcia Cross
I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I’ve been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you’re down to give you a kick. John Hewson
It’s one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. Dan Simmons
I know that I’ve overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I’m exhausted. Geri Halliwell
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
I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it. Dan Fouts
There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, – the clearest proof that it is out of its element. Augustus Hare
Really, the measure of a man is when they’re tired and exhausted. George Eads
It’s not difficult to take care of a child; it’s difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you’ve had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you’re exhausted, and you really don’t want to clean up the kitchen now. Julianne Moore
When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days – who are so thin it’s bordering on sickness – I just feel exhausted. Katherine Heigl
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. Albert Camus
If I’m exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can’t tell what’s good and I can’t tell what’s bad and I’m useless. Guy Pearce
I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world’s best feeling, although I’m totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well. Yuichiro Miura
I remember working as a paralegal at a law firm, being so exhausted that, midday, I would go to the utility closet to take a nap. And to me, that wasn’t the evidence of a serious illness; it was evidence that somehow I wasn’t able to work long hours or to work as hard as the people around me. Suleika Jaouad
The American male doesn’t mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities. Wilfrid Sheed
Occasionally, as an actor, you’re not… Sometimes, at least for me, I’m not fully in the groove until the second or third take, in which I would not want to just stop. If it’s a scene that takes a lot of work and time, sometimes the scene gets better with time, and sometimes it gets exhausted. I think it just depends on the scene. Kiernan Shipka
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. Albert Pike
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. Robert Quine
I learned that the hardest party to pull off successfully is Saturday night dinner. This meal is expected to be elaborate: appetizers, first course, dinner, dessert, and coffee. People arrive at 7:30 or 8 p.m. and stay for hours – definitely past my bedtime – and they all go home exhausted. Ina Garten
I think I’m chronically exhausted. Hillary Clinton
I’m a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie
But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father’s power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life’s whiplash. People you love will disappoint you – and you will disappoint them. You’ll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete. Sheri L. Dew
Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted. Mason Cooley
There have been many times when I was working out intensely and in the best shape of my life, and then, for whatever reason, I got off track. Before I knew it, 3 or 4 months would go by, and all of a sudden, I’d find myself exhausted halfway up a flight of stairs! Lewis Howes
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban
I’m exhausted almost all the time. Emily VanCamp
Just as you’re allowed to be angry about injustice, it’s natural to express feelings of sadness or fear, especially if you’re exhausted by the prospect of trying to keep a brave face. Franchesca Ramsey
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. John Lothrop Motley
I feel like I’ve exhausted guys and male friendships. Irvine Welsh
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. Robert Fortune
I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I wouldn’t call myself successful, just obsessively exhausted. The music makes me smile, the movies make me feel humbled, and the comedy saves my life every day. Vir Das
The best time to listen to a politician is when he’s on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he’s exhausted. Then he doesn’t lie. Theodore White
I do not want my man to be exhausted for our wedding day, especially our wedding night. Nikki Bella
I don’t have muscle tone. I’m just flab. I’m not a daredevil. I don’t like pain, I don’t like cold, I don’t want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I’ve never felt before, in a physical sense. Charlene Tilton
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do. George Saintsbury
Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we’ve lost the ability to be blown away by music. Brian Wilson
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. Georg Simmel
Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one’s stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. Boris Pasternak
When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that’s why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. Zaha Hadid
I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches. Christie Rampone
It’s only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony. Alan Greenspan
Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood, but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods over the usual obstacles and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, ‘This is the way, walk ye in it.’ Ravi Zacharias
I feel exhausted if I teach too long. Dalai Lama
When you’re at your absolute, most exhausted… That’s when you have to be at the top of your game. Bill Hader
The games I enjoy most are the ones I finish exhausted, and with knocks, but having played. Thiago Alcantara
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather
To say I am not mentally tired in ways and exhausted in ways would be a lie. Megan Rapinoe
If there’s a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I’ll work ’till exhausted. Dave Brubeck
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. William Styron
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed. Julius Sterling Morton
The struggle to write with profundity of emotion and at the same time to live like a millionaire so exhausted F. Scott Fitzgerald that he was at last brought down to the point where he could no longer be both a good writer and a decent person. Nelson Algren
I am fairly concise when I work and I work quickly because I think work is done better in a high gear than done our in a gear when everyone’s exhausted. Get focused, do it! Twyla Tharp
On an exhausted field, only weeds grow. Henryk Sienkiewicz
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone’s tired, things get on top of them. Alan Cumming
Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on ‘NCIS.’ You get home and you’re exhausted, but you feel like you’ve really worked. Cote de Pablo
When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the ‘low-hanging fruit’ has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles – a lot of very basic inventions – have spread to almost all households. Tyler Cowen
We have concluded that the U.K. chose to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action at that time was not a last resort. John Chilcot
I’m not married and I don’t think that’s going to work out for me. I’m not even bitter, I’m just exhausted. Mary Lynn Rajskub
I was burned out. I think I was just exhausted. It was a very intense five years. We didn’t stop. It was constant touring, constant writing, recording. Roger Andrew Taylor
If I’m exhausted and I just don’t feel like it, then I don’t do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I’m the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it’s very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising. Kelly Ripa
December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a ‘cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.’ Brad Feld
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. David Shields
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, ‘Let’s do this!’ So I’m co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me. Kerry Washington
It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached. Imre Lakatos
What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted. Alex Campbell
I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player. Chad Smith
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. Norodom Sihanouk
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted. Michael Musto
One night, I was really beat; we worked really late and went to get food at some takeout place. And I leaned over against this gumball machine, just exhausted, and there was a SpongeBob looking back at me. And it’s just, like, ‘Oh, brother.’ Stephen Hillenburg
I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn’t want to go to work the next day exhausted. Dick York
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law’s flat. Maggie Smith
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
I’ve been dating since I was fifteen. I’m exhausted. Where is he? Kristin Davis
The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored. Nostradamus
On stage, you have to hype yourself for two hours. It takes up a lot of energy, leaving me totally exhausted. Poonam Dhillon
I’m exhausted trying to stay healthy. Steve Yzerman
I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something. Willie Mays
When I get time off, my brain is just, that’s it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I’m upset or not happy, but I’m just exhausted. I’m just zoned out. Stephen Amell
Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted. Sam Sheppard
We would not have our country’s vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. Henry Cabot Lodge
CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. Floyd Abrams
I was working straight for nine months and I’m exhausted. I’m ready to relax for a little while and read. I don’t want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it. Sanaa Lathan
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a critical oil supply that should only be utilized when all other options to lower costs have been exhausted. Nicole Malliotakis
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
Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It’s surprising because he looks exhausted. Bradley Whitford
The Himalayas make you insignificant. When you are trekking in the mountains of the Himalayas and finally you reach the top exhausted and completely wiped out; you look down and you see nothing. For hundreds of miles you see just hills, mountains and mist; when you look up from your sleeping bag at night you can see just stars. Victor Banerjee
