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Quotes About Tiredness

And I am sick for want of sleep; So sick, that I can half-believe The soundless river pouring from the cave Is neither strong nor deep; Only an image fancied in conceit.
~ Philip Larkin
Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, build muscle, reduce tiredness and kill our hunger pangs. Maybe if we shake enough protein powder into our daily smoothie, we will actually morph into Gwyneth Paltrow.
~ Bee Wilson
We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
I don't know how it is with other people's relationships, but my wife is always much more tired than me because she works much harder looking after the children, which is an endless battle - a lot of it is battling with them to stop battling with each other.
~ Michael McIntyre
His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.
~ Jonathan Franzen
All the kids from daycare are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The f**k to sleep.
~ Adam Mansbach
All the kids from day care are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no, you can't go to the bathroom. You know where you can go? The fuck to sleep.
~ Adam Mansbach
The cats nestle close to their kittens, The lambs have lain down with the sheep. You're cozy and warm in your bed, my dear. Please go the fuck to sleep.
~ Adam Mansbach
sleep comes hard. I'd rather lie awake and read.
~ Adrienne Rich
Without question, I wake every night five times.
~ George Clooney
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.
~ Susan Orlean
You're very tired, he said. You've traveled a long way and you belong to a tired people who've been without faith a long time, and you want to believe so much now that you're interfering with yourself. You'll only make it harder if you kill. You'll never find him that way.
~ Ray Bradbury
Homeward the ploughman plods his weary way. The ploughman plods his weary way homeward. Plods homeward the ploughman his weary way. His weary way the ploughman homeward plods. Homeward his weary way plods the ploughman. Plods the ploughman his weary way homeward. His weary way the ploughman plods homeward. His weary way homeward the ploughman plods. The ploughman plods homeward his weary way. The ploughman his weary way plods homeward.
~ Joseph Devlin
My God, the sense of fatigue…
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Usted ha de venir cansado y el sueño es muy buen colchón para el cansancio.
~ Juan Rulfo
Fatigue is the physical confirmation of superior effort.
~ Wes Fessler
when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything. System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, System 2 is in charge of doubting and unbelieving, but System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy. Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The moral is significant: when System 2 is otherwise engaged, we will believe almost anything. System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, System 2 is in charge of doubting and unbelieving, but System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy. Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Sloboda je stigla nenadano: neželjeno dijete predugog rata i ljudi umornih od biranja strana. Sloboda je imala ime za koje nismo hajali. Sloboda je imala ideale za koje nismo marili. Simbol! Jedino smo željeli znati koji ?e joj biti simbol! Morali smo znati koji ?e joj biti simbol!
~ Darko Macan
Her father did look tired, almost as if he were sitting in shadow when everyone around him was in sunshine.
~ Dave Duncan
Sleep felt miles away, and he couldn't shake the despair and hopelessness that coursed through his body and mind—
~ James Dashner
He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness.
~ Donna Tartt
She had known it all the time: I'm so enormously exhausted, so utterly, basically tired, and in fibre of myself, that to know I haven't got to go through with living is like a reprieve. How extraordinary! And every one of these people, with the possible exception of this exuberant young man, is terrified that the machine is going to crash, and yet we all trooped obediently into it. So perhaps we all feel the same way?
~ Doris Lessing
Maybe. Who cares?" said Slartibartfast before Arthur got too excited. "Perhaps I'm old and tired," he continued, "but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. Look at me: I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway
~ Douglas Adams