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Quotes About Fatigue

Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.
~ Saku Koivu
If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory.
~ Daniel Levitin
You're coming off the training pitch properly tired. You'd be empty. You couldn't go and do extra finishing.
~ Kemar Roofe
All that prosthetic makeup drains you. By the time it's lunch, you're done.
~ Mickey Rourke
The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
~ Gaby Hoffmann
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
After marriage came elation, and then, gradually, the growth of weariness. Responsibility descended upon Merlin, the responsibility of making his thirty dollars a week and her twenty suffice to keep them respectably fat and to hide with decent garments the evidence that they were.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Only Maury Noble remained awake, seated upon the station roof, his eyes wide open and fixed with fatigued intensity upon the distant nucleus of morning. He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into his life, like rats into a ruined house.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un'enorme persuasiva tranquillità s'impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
They stopped thinking with an almost painful relief, stopped seeing; they only breathed and sought each other. They were both in the gray gentle world of a mild hangover of fatigue when the nerves relax in bunches like piano strings, and crackle suddenly like wicker chairs. Nerves so raw and tender must surely join other nerves, lips to lips, breast to breast…
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ci sono soltanto perseguitati e persecutori, affaccendati e stanchi.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Cansado do universo e sociedade, Da abstracção que não finda o que é fundo Do meu fatal pôr-olhos sobre o mundo, Pobre de amor e rico de ansiedade, Já nada me seduz nem me persuade.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The weariness of being loved, of being truly loved! The weariness of being the object of other people's burdensome emotions!
~ Fernando Pessoa
El cansancio de todas las ilusiones y de todo cuanto hay en las ilusiones: su pérdida, la inutilidad de tenerlas, el cansancio anticipado de tener que tenerlas para perderlas, la amargura de haberlas tenido, la vergüenza intelectual de haberlas tenido sabiendo que tendrían ese final.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A minha alma está cansada da minha vida
~ Fernando Pessoa
Right now I have so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say that I suddenly feel tired, and I've decided to write no more, think no more. I'll let the fever of saying put me to sleep instead, and with closed eyes I'll stroke, as if petting a cat, all that I might have said.
~ Fernando Pessoa
O que há em mim é sobretudo cansaço —Não disto nem daquilo. Nem sequer de tudo ou de nada. Cansaço assim mesmo, ele mesmo. Cansaço.
~ Fernando Pessoa