Quotes About Mental fatigue

psychologist Daniel W. Josselyn wrote in his book Why Be Tired?:

I want to cry because my mind is working too much

After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation.

Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

If she could've found the will power to speak, the brain cells to construct thought, she would've told Clay he was a god. It was a good thing she was too wiped out or he would never let her forget it

It's similar to the run-walk-run method for endurance running where you don't wait to be too tired to run before you take a walk break. By resting even before the point of mental fatigue, you extend your ability to focus intensely on the task at hand … including reading.

I'm human like everybody else. It's just that I'm so tired, so worn out, I can't feel anymore.

When our brain is overtaxed, we find "distractions more distracting.

The experiment suggested a strong correlation "between the number of links and disorientation or cognitive overload," wrote Zhu.

I'm exhausted by your lies. By all the pretence. By the constant . . . I don't know . . . the constant obfuscation, I suppose, is the word.

I'm tired to stupidity. My apologies.

?fadesi güç ?eyler dü?ünüyorum. ?eyler... ?eyler.' Durur, kafas?n? toparlama?a çal???rd?. 'Çok saçma ?eyler, çok önemsiz ?eyler de dü?ünüyorum. Kafam hiç durmadan çal???yor. Önemli, önemsiz: ben s?raya koymaya f?rsat bulamadan büyük bir h?zla geçiyorlar. Geriye yaln?z yorgunluk kal?yor. Okumal?y?m ve bütün bunlar? unutmal?y?m.

I am sure that the reason why I wept and stormed as if I had gone off my head was that the combination of physical exhaustion and my unhappiness had made me hate and resent everything.

it is impossible to come to a sensible conclusion about anything when one is very tired

It is a great strain to have to reassure people that one is perfectly well when all one really wishes is to be left alone to sleep.

Tenía la cabeza y el corazón cansados. Y aún así, el sueño no venía.

knackered is what he is," he said. "He hasn't got another

But, again, since there aren't muscles in the brain, why do we get mentally tired? Perhaps, like muscles, brains feed off a limited resource. Baumeister and his colleagues suggest that this is glucose (sugar). This theory is supported by the fact that sugar does seem to have an energizing effect. Running out of steam? Have a candy bar.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

I was tired in ways that had nothing to do with sleep. It occurred to me, sitting in the car with her, that I had been trying to hold too many things together that were meant to fall apart.