The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.
so convincing were those dreams of being awake that he woke from them in a state of complete exhaustion, and had to go straight back to sleep again. - Joseph Heller
Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.
The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut
Out in the fjord I dragged myself up at once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town – to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so brightly in all the homes. - Knut Hamsun