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source: "My My Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (song) (1978). The last sentence was quoted by singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 Apr. 1994. See Richard Cumberland 1

topic: Lovely, Burn Out, Rock Song, Burned Out, Fade Away

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

- Kurt Cobain

topic: Self, Miserable, Highlander, Rock Song, Famous Last Words

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

- Jack London

source: Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Burned Out, Meteors

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Passion, Phoenix, Ashes, Burnt Out

If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

- Alberto Juantorena

topic: Athlete, Years, Careers, Burnt Out, Filling Up

So an ancient once said, "Accept the anxieties and difficulties of this life". Don't expect your practice to be clear of obstacles. Without hindrances the mind that seeks enlightenment may be burnt out. So an ancient once said, "Attain deliverance in disturbances".

- Kyongho

topic: Practice, Anxiety, Mind, Burnt Out

On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Dream, Heart, Dark, Burnt Out

If you're consumed only with the big dream, you're going to die because you won't be able to feed yourself or you're going to be losing your job, so you'll just be sitting in your room dreaming, but if you're only holding onto the crap jobs that keep you just above of the water you're going to be unhappy. You're going to be burnt out, washed out.

- Robert Greene

topic: Dream, Jobs, Water, Burnt Out

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."

- Madeleine L'Engle

topic: Mind, Affirmation, Glory, Burnt Out

I was just burnt out. I didn't like the music business and I didn't like me. There's an element of falseness about the whole thing. Even things like doing an interview. It's not as though we just met in the pub and are having a chat - it's part of a process. If you do it all day, every day for years, you end up thinking: 'Who the hell am I?' I was lucky enough to make some money, enough to let me kick back. It was a great experience and it was nice to have a couple of No.1s but the best thing about it was that the money I made allowed me to have freedom and choice in my life.

- Rick Astley

source: Interview with James Ellis, metro.co.uk. October 27, 2009.

topic: Couple, Nice, Thinking, Falseness, Burnt Out

I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

- Shannon Hoon

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Moments, Stir Crazy, Coma

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

topic: Morning, Rain, Eye, Frankenstein Novel, Burnt Out

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

- Guido Calabresi

topic: Volcanoes, Trying, Ends, Burnt Out

I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.

- Denise Duhamel

topic: Fashion, People, Comedian, Hairdresser, Stand Up Comedian

Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.

- Xeno Muller

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Tired, Blow, Thinking, Physically Tired, Burnt Out

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

- Jeremy Brett

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Long, Important, Stories, Burnt Out

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Fire, Mountain, Decay, Burnt Out

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

- Robbie Williams

topic: Rocks, Lasts, Firsts, Burnt Out

Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

source: Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.138, Courier Corporation

topic: Tired, Blow, Light, Burnt Out

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

- George Strait

topic: Singing, Mouths, Coming Out, Miles Away, Burnt Out

By the time I finished comedy, I was really burnt out of it. I had had enough. I don't really have a strong desire to prove myself in that area, or to go back to it in any great way.

- Eric Bana

topic: Strong, Desire, Way, Strong Desire, Burnt Out

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

topic: Halloween, Eye, Yellow, Frankenstein Novel, Burnt Out

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

- Michael Eisner

topic: Originality, Sometimes, Worn, Burnt Out

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

- Donovan Bailey

topic: Exercise, Long, Track, Burnt Out, Corporate

She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Men, Opportunity, Fire, Serious Things, Burnt Out

It is a fact that, up to seven million people a year are dying from fossil fuel pollution. It is a fact that we are already dealing with the catastrophe of climate change in places like California, where people have been burnt out of their homes and where they are dealing with record droughts.

- Mark Ruffalo

topic: Home, California, Years, Burnt Out

God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God is not out of breath because he has blown one tempest and swallowed a Navy: Our God has not burnt out his eyes because he has looked upon a Train of Powder."

- Errol Morris

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Eye, Men, Navy, Burnt Out

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct.

- Lake Bell

source: "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

topic: Writing, Acting, Lucky, Burnt Out

I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.

- Lake Bell

source: "Actress Lake Bell, first female voice of Apple ads, is taking over Hollywood one project at a time". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. November 30, 2015.

topic: Mean, Responsibility, Writing, Burnt Out

I did always want to write. And then, when I left New York, where I was working very steadily in the theater - I had done three Broadway shows in a row and was a bit burnt out - I moved out to L.A. and I was not working very much. I came in cold and I'd work for a week, but then I'd have a month or two off. I thought, "I'm going to go crazy unless I actually do write." Like a lot of things in life, it was a situation that came about by circumstances.

- Jim Piddock

source: Source: collider.com

topic: New York, Crazy, Writing, Burnt Out

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

topic: Night, Clouds, Mountain, Misty Mountains, Burnt Out

That's the one thing I say about the great British shows. You know, I see it on the series on HBO where the season is shortened to like 12 or 6 or whatever it is. You know there's a reason why there's a quality behind that. Because I think the writers as well as the crew and the cast do get burnt out after doing continuous episodes after and over and it feels like a factory rather than something of a creative process. And we get tapped out. That's just my opinion.

- Hayden Panettiere

source: Source: www.movieweb.com

topic: Thinking, Hbo, Creative, Burnt Out

When I came off the Halloween movies, they were very stressful movies to make. That had been four very stressful years. I'm happy with how they turned out, but getting the end results took so much fighting with people and so much craziness, that at the end of it I was so burnt out.

- Rob Zombie

source: Source: www.complex.com

topic: Halloween, Fighting, Years, Burnt Out

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

- Herman Melville

topic: Games, Long, Sailing, Finesse, Burnt Out

I've had so many critics over the past couple of months. I've had so many people who said I'm too old for this, I am burnt out. But, you know what, I am so hungry to make a career for myself. I was able to turn all this negativity into something positive.

- Ashley Wagner

source: "Ashley Wagner shatters records for third U.S. figure skating title" by Nick Zaccardi, olympics.nbcsports.com. January 24, 2015.

topic: Couple, Past, Careers, Burnt Out

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

- Edmund Burke

source: Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.417

topic: Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes, Burned Out, Lava

I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties. You're not burnt out, you're going to stick around and most of the best cyclists are in their 30s.

- Kristin Armstrong

topic: Thinking, Twenties, Cyclists, Burnt Out

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

- Lee Child

topic: Jobs, Reading, Writing, Burnt Out

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

- Zygmunt Bauman

topic: Dream, Phoenix, Ashes, Burnt Out

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