Overworker Quotes & Sayings

In the face of a threat to the survival of the species, all these planetside trivialities are put aside until the crisis passes. — Orson Scott Card

Happiness is a warm friendship. — Haruki Murakami

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention. — Arlie Russell Hochschild

It's said that the reason the elves and demons began their war is because of a broken alliance," he said, the world-weary damage to his face making him look wise. "I've always found it to be true - that the best of friends make the bitterest of enemies. Elves and demons, forever fighting. Who is to say that demons weren't the slaves of elves first? — Kim Harrison

As for those who seek the transcendental Reality, without name, without form, contemplating the Unmanifested, beyond the reach of thought and of feeling, 4 with their senses subdued and mind serene and striving for the good of all beings, they too will verily come unto me. — Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. — Vladimir Nabokov

Conrad calling me again - that was enough to make me forget how to breathe. — Jenny Han