Quotes About Fatigue

When you're in the military, you get accustomed to sleep deprivation.

Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn't think it could kill you, but I think it can.

Don't worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on the other hand, leads to stress and fatigue.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

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

I've seen a lot of teachers come and go, and you do three or four years, and it's exhausting.

Ernie Pyle, who was with them as usual, wrote: "They were dead weary, as a person could tell even when looking at them from behind. Every line and sag of their bodies spoke their inhuman exhaustion…. They were young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion made them look middle-aged." A sergeant wrote to his family in Iowa: "It'll soon be five months that a pup tent has been our home. Five months since I've even so much as sat at a table while eating.

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

Qué sentís respecto a vuestro destino profetizado? He de saberlo, si tengo que componer esa oda heroica. —¿Que qué siento? (...) Cansancio. Me siento cansado.

the Creator must have been tired when it came time to make men;

I am going to get some sleep, Mat said, already turning away. Wake me if the Trollocs show up again. Or better, let them kill me in my blankets, I am too tired to wake up again.

exhausted people do not make the best decisions.

Various studies, predominantly by Roy Baumeister of Florida State University, show that when the frontal cortex labors hard on some cognitive task, immediately afterward individuals are more aggressive and less empathic, charitable, and honest. Metaphorically, the frontal cortex says, "Screw it. I'm tired and don't feel like thinking about my fellow human.

Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get up, but get up in order that you may be able to go back to sleep.

But for the present I would lie there and know I didn't have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same.

People think that working hard for money and then buying things that make them look rich will make them rich. In most cases it doesn't. It only makes them more tired. They call it 'Keeping up with the Joneses.' And if you notice, the Joneses are exhausted.

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too.

And anyhow I'd always be too tired at night to bother saying prayers. People who have to look after twins can't be expected to say their prayers. Now

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.

Talk's the way to kill it. Anything gets boring if you talk about it enough, even death.

The thought crossed his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.

It was wearying, trying to adjust to all the paces life required.

I'm tired of justice, ain't you?

During the day he had not trusted enough, and had worn himself out with pointless scurryings.