Quotes About Fatigue

risings in two days were taking their toll.

though testing his vision. "Fades a bit sometimes," he explained, "if I'm verra tired. Things

was so tired, though, that mind and body had begun to separate. It was a familiar phenomenon. Doctors, soldiers, and mothers encounter it routinely; I had, any number of times. Unable to respond to an immediate emergency while clouded by fatigue, the mind simply withdraws a little, separating itself fastidiously from the body's overwhelming self-centered needs.

elbow. I had been without sleep for most of the last three days

He felt oddly comfortable with the man, he realized, with a feeling of surprise. Part of it was sheer fatigue, of course; all his usual reactions and feelings were numbed by the long night and the strain of watching a man die by inches. The entire night had seemed unreal to Grey; not least was this odd conclusion, wherein he found himself sitting in the dim dawn light of a country tavern, sharing a pitcher of ale with Red Jamie Fraser.

You've not been sleeping proper," Byrd said accusingly. "I can tell. You've been a-wallowing on your pillow; your hair's a right rat's nest!

Since I come from a television background, that has been my school of thought from the beginning, but what TV does to you is it drains you out because you are just working every day.

There's a lot of dynamics that can really break a human down.

I get this thing every once in a while that I call 'ESS:' emergency sleep situation. I'll get like lead, really fatigued, and I can't move.

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

Everyone was searching for something, conducting lively arguments, getting excited, but behind it all one felt weariness, disillusion, emptiness.

the simple task of getting dressed and undressed was a real strain, but nothing could compare with her addiction to deep sleep...

He should have been nothing but exhilarated. Somehow, he merely felt tired. Bone weary with the routine of his life, the predictability of it.

Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the nation's golf courses.

I'm still tired and sleeping all the time and still not enough. My arms are just hanging down at my sides and I don't feel like doing anything at all. And I don't have any desire — for nothing, not money, not my mother, not Therese.

L'affetto è anch'esso una fatica e nessuno vi si sottopone per regola: il vero riposo è l'indifferenza.

Day by day as autumn tanned the valley around us, now with bright frost weather, now with rain carrying the first chill of winter, my father stayed in the dusk of his grief. That sandbagged mood, I understand now, can only have been a kind of battle fatigue-the senses blasted around in him by that morning of death and the thousands of inflicting minutes it was followed by.

You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

Hayden, the horses are tired.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Fatigue, swollen ankles, the midwife said. The worst discomforts of pregnancy. I wrote those down. But she's wrong: self-pity. Strange dreams, she said. No dreams.

He collapsed, all his efforts spent.

Left! Right! Left! Right!" Dr. Carbles yelled as we marched. "Stop lagging behind, kindergarteners!" Dr. Carbles had us march around the playground a million hundred times. I thought I was gonna die.