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Quotes About Fatigue

In the 84 days after Beijing I had, on average, three things a day and one day off. I didn't sleep in the same bed for more than two nights in a row. It sounds a bit pathetic but it was exhausting - it was like really intensive training with no rest days.
~ Chris Hoy
You cannot always play at 100 per cent, especially at the end of the season when you don't have much energy left.
~ Fabio Quagliarella
Nobody's feeling, after 10 days of playing every day, 100 per cent ready or fit.
~ Karolina Pliskova
Nobody should be working 18 hours a day for a whole year or any period of time.
~ Mark Duplass
Sí, hijo mío —rió con fatiga—. He conocido el cambio. He sentido que el tiempo corría como un río caudaloso, arrastrando en su torrente esperanzas naufragadas.
~ Poul Anderson
Laura answered the door. She tried to smile welcome. Not an easy task. Eyes puffed, skin pallid, shirt stained. Taking care of her brother was draining the life out of her. Succubus in action.
~ Rabih Alameddine
You get tired of reality, and then you discover it's already gotten tired of you.
~ Rachel Cusk
Favorite-son candidates almost always win their states decisively in presidential elections. But their status as national celebrities can end up breeding fatigue and resentment among home-state voters when the election is over.
~ Steve Kornacki
After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.
~ Adelbert von Chamisso
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Without question, I wake every night five times.
~ George Clooney
For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.
~ Derek Sivers
I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.
~ Anna Kendrick
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.
~ Susan Orlean
My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!
~ Marisa Miller
Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.
~ Caroline Corr
Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain. Many people walk through their lives in an underslept state, not realizing it.
~ Matthew Walker
I literally couldn't walk down the street; I slept for 16 hours a day, was in chronic pain, had blackouts, never-ending heart palpitations, unbearable stomach issues, constant headaches - the list goes on.
~ Ella Woodward
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
~ Zooey Deschanel
Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.
~ George Combe
The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
~ Laura Hillenbrand
You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills.
~ John Barrow
I love it when, after a day of shooting, I'm so exhausted that my bones hurt.
~ Franka Potente
I remember thinking I couldn't be bothered to feel any emotions any more.
~ Adwoa Aboah