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Quotes About Fatigue

There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice.
~ Unknown
Shortly before midnight General de Castries' situation report to FTNV stressed the lack of reserves, the terrible fatigue of all his units, and his absolute need for a complete and solid battalion to be parachuted on the following night if GONO was to survive. By dawn the night would have cost him 331 men killed and missing and 168 wounded – the equivalent of a battalion.
~ Unknown
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
~ Hilaire Belloc
I do not know just how long it takes to become saturated with the elements so that one takes no account of them. Myself can never get past the glow and exhilaration of a storm, the wrestle of long dust-heavy winds, the play of live thunder on the rocks, nor past the keen fret of fatigue when the storm outlasts physical endurance.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
I remembered the syndrome, a thing I would describe as a "Mission Accomplished Fatigue," a singular condition that often follows the successful completion of a protracted construction project. Officially undiagnosed, its common manifestations include depression, lassitude, and fatalism. Comparable to postpartum depression in its singularity of cause, the best evocation of its effect is suggested in the Jerry
~ Unknown
This is of great importance, to watch carefully, - now I am so weak - not to over fatigue myself, because then I cannot contribute to the pleasure of others; and a placid face and a gentle tone will make my family more happy than anything else I can do for them. Our own will gets sadly into the performances of our duties sometimes (Elizabeth T. King).
~ Unknown
I come weary, In search of an inn— Ah! These wisteria flowers!
~ Matsuo Basho
The Last Update That Nora Had Posted Before She Found Herself Between Life and Death I miss my cat. I'm tired.
~ Matt Haig
Nora must have looked tired because quite a few of her colleagues told her that she did, but maybe it was just that there weren't many places in the conversation that she could enter with confidence. She felt like a learner driver at a busy junction, nervously waiting for a clear and safe patch of road.
~ Matt Haig
common symptom of atrophy is nervous exhaustion.
~ Unknown
In neurasthenia the person is exhausted from stimulation. They do not have the reserves to recover easily from mental or physical exertion.
~ Unknown
Over the course of discussions with Tania and her collaborators, we noted that compassion and altruistic love were associated with positive emotions. So we arrived at the idea that burnout was in fact a kind of "empathy fatigue" and not "compassion fatigue.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.
~ Maureen Johnson
My sense of touch was floating six feet away from me; if anyone entered my room, I would cry out, but the knife was serenely cutting me up. Yes, I became a skeleton. At night my thinness would rise up before me to terrify me. As it came and went it insulted me, it tired me out; oh, I was certainly very tired.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Each time, Thomas was thrust back into the depths of his being by the very words which had haunted him and which he was pursuing as his nightmare and the explanation of his nightmare. He found that he was ever more empty, ever heavier; he no longer moved without infinite fatigue. His body, after so many struggles, became entirely opaque, and to those who looked at it, it gave the peaceful impression of sleep, though it had not ceased to be awake.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Extreme fatigue causes insomnia, and insomnia is the cause of unhappiness
~ Maurice Druon
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
~ Max Ehrmann
psychologist Daniel W. Josselyn wrote in his book Why Be Tired?:
~ Maxwell Maltz
For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been a collision. I feel too much, sense too much, am exhausted by the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.
~ May Sarton
I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.
~ Maya Banks
He could see now that she looked tired; the delicate tissue under her eyes bruised violet with fatigue. He fought an almost irresistible desire to trace the half-circles with his finger.
~ Meg Rosoff
I don't care. I don't care. I have no shame. He ate away all my shame." "No wonder he's getting tired of you," Dara said. "I'm tired of you.
~ Megan Abbott
I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
But as more and more "small things" went wrong—endometriosis, hives, the labral tear in my hip, the arthritis in my neck, the thyroid disease, the failure to get pregnant, the fatigue and brain fog—I had started to see my body differently, not as a collection of parts but as an entangled system.
~ Meghan O'Rourke