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Quotes About Fatigue

I was sick of strife, and weary of being wary.
~ Robin Hobb
Emotion can be more exhausting than physical endeavor.
~ Robin Hobb
Are you sick to sleep this much?" "It's easier than being awake.
~ Robin Hobb
She could weep no tears, for all hers had been spent.
~ Robin Jarvis
She was too exhausted to live.
~ Lisa Scottoline
He seemed much older and very tired, defeated.
~ Lois Lowry
It was hell to be so tired, and still care.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
And what is your current complaint? I don't like Barrayar, I want to go home, my father-in-law wants to murder my baby, half my friends are running for their lives, and I can't get ten minutes alone with my husband, whom you people are consuming before my eyes, my feet hurt, my head hurts, my soul hurts... It was all too complicated. The poor man just wanted something to put in his blank, not an essay. Fatigue, Cordelia managed at last.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Patience and exhaustion turn out to have a lot in common.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
he was getting mortally tired of having to reinvent the wheel every fifteen minutes.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I had seen this exact same expression and movement before - where? In the future I would come to know that look as the beginning of the end of love - the death of a man's trying. It read as Haughty Fatigue. Like the name of a stripper.
~ Lorrie Moore
Love drains from you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans slowing, the lights dimming and flickering; the clocks stop and go and stop.
~ Lorrie Moore
What is worse is that one wonders how, to-morrow, one will find strength enough to go on doing what one has been doing the day before, and for so much too long before that, – strength for the whole mad business, for a thousand and one vain projects: attempts to escape crushing necessity; attempts which are always stillborn....
~ Louis Ferdinand Céline
Tired," said Jason. "S-L-E-E-P-Y. Tired.
~ Louis Sachar
But I'm so tired, Winsome said, of Meeting other people. I want other people to meet me.
~ Ronald Firbank
Cuncta fessa. Que quiere decir: Todo el mundo está cansado. El cansancio ante la inseguridad política y social es lo que llevó a Roma a perder sus derechos y sus libertades. El miedo provoca hambre de autoritarismo en las personas. Es un pésimo consejero el miedo.
~ Rosa Montero
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Training energy system to effectively resynthesize ATP – as quickly as possible – so that muscle contraction continues without onset of fatigue – forms the basis of most exercise protocols.
~ The Fitness Doc
If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!
~ Saulo Ribeiro
Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.
~ Peter Gallagher
It really strikes me how much of your energy in America, especially if you're from a working back-ground, is spent just keeping your head above water. It really saps your grace and your strength.
~ George Saunders
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
~ Max Ehrmann
Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.
~ Paulo Coelho
Meditation is a simple yet powerful tool that takes us to a state of profound relaxation that dissolves fatigue and the accumulated stress that accelerates the aging process.
~ Deepak Chopra