Quotes About Mental fatigue

The amount of all the pretending she'll have to do exhausts her.

I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.

You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

Being in a relationship, I only appreciate when I come home from work how much I've given of myself at work or how depleted I am, and I sometimes worry that I've given all my best energy to my work, and all I can offer you is the emptied out shell.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

All day while I've been thinking and talking about Phaedrus they must have been thinking about how bad all this is. That's what's really wearing them down. The thought.

In the night Lorena tried to sort it out in her mind. She had been hungry so much, tired so much, scared so much, that her mind didn't work well anymore. Sometimes she would try to remember something and couldn't—it was as if her mind and memory had gone and hidden somewhere until things were better.

If I weren't so tired, I'd shove trust and issue down the garbage disposal and let it run all day.

Patriotism is a hard disease to eradicate, and ennui stamps us all.

I feel like I'm eighty years old. I'm tired of life and my mind wants to die.

But she is tired all the time now. She can feel how slowly she is walking, as if the air itself is something to be reckoned with.

In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago, but I have no concentration: the time slips through my fingers like water.

It's not the bombs I'm scared of any more, it's the weariness," wrote a female civil servant in her Mass-Observation diary—"trying to work and concentrate with your eyes sticking out of your head like hat-pins, after being up all night. I'd die in my sleep, happily, if only I could sleep.

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

In the old days he would not have worried, but the fighting part of him was tired now, along with the other part, and he was alone in all of this now and he lay on the big, wide, old bed and could neither read nor sleep.

But you have not slept yet, old man," he said aloud. "It is half a day and a night and now another day and you have not slept. You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady. If you do not sleep you might become unclear in the head.

It's always taken a lot out of me, being smart.

It was too early for me to interact with the living, and in spite of my general fondness for Sera, she still was another entity and thus a toll on my exhausted mind.

Now, dressing for breakfast, she felt sluggish and tense.

To be a showrunner and a director is beyond exhausting.

I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil.

No. I've seen enough brains to last

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.