Quotes About Fatigue

The body needs rest, even when the spirit is still strong enough to go on.

This generation of ours is dead tired. Their engines are not too powerful to withstand all the pressures of life.

I have a hard time sleeping at night and a hard time staying awake in the day. Being older is harder work that I thought I'd be, that's all.

Ask any woman today how she's doing, and there's a good chance the answer will be 'Busy!' or 'Exhausted!

Dina, who couldn't imagine not working when everyone else was, didn't think twice. What did being tired have to do with it? You worked until the work was done.

the first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

La novela que yo escribí es una novela sin puntos ni comas. No tenía ganas de ponérselas. Y explico por qué. Las comas son como los pasos. Los pasos producen cansancio y yo no tenía ganas de cansarme, me sentía sin fuerzas y no quería caminar, sino sentarme y recostarme.

How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue

Her whole body was tired, but her mind had the jangly, wakeful feeling that sometimes came over her when she was lying in bed at night in Rochester.

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

the kind of life-fatigue she occasionally glimpses in the eyes of the very, very old.

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.

He smiled again, pleased but it didn't hide the tightness in his jaw, the worry and the weariness.

Her bright red lipstick couldn't hide the fatigue in her smile.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

She was all of a muck of sweat.

Apart from nembutsu, we can cure our fatigue by sitting truly well in meditation, even if we shorten the time of our sleep. This has been proved by many who have experienced zazen. Ten minutes of zazen before reading and the momentary immersion in samadhi before work—how well they help us enjoy our work and reading, and to what a great extent they enhance our efficiency!

On one hand, kinhin is a kind of exercise to ease our fatigue after sitting, and on the other, it is training to bring about the oneness of movement and calmness.

He hoped no one would wake him because burying people took time and was a lot of effort.

Arry thought her mind must be tired. It would not, in a sensible fashion, lie down and rest.

She meant that her soul was tired, her heart was tired, her whole being was tired...

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.