Quotes about Exhaustion

She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

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.

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

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.

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.

I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

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.

If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.