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Quotes About Fatigue

They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.
~ E.M. Forster
One was tired of everything, it seemed. One launched into enthusiasms only to collapse gracefully, and pick oneself up amid sympathetic laughter.
~ E.M. Forster
And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds—a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...
~ E.M. Forster
Not ill. Eternally tired. He has worked very hard all his life, and noticed nothing. Those are the people who collapse when they do notice a thing.
~ E.M. Forster
Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
~ Ed O'Brien
For the body at best    Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest;    It cries when it wakes
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
~ Edward Abbey
Man may work from sun to sun,But woman's work is never done.
~ Anonymous
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet… but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
~ Anonymous
The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.
~ Anthony Burgess
Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor--it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.
~ Anthony Doerr
That was when I would be at my lowest, falling asleep with the knowledge that the moment I opened my eyes the whole thing would start all over again.
~ Anthony Horowitz
The scariest thing I've ever had about a long drive is almost falling asleep a couple of times. Those moments where you maybe should have pulled over and taken a nap, like, a couple of hours ago.
~ Ron Livingston
I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
~ Daniel Woodrell
Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
I'm getting older and I guess I was pushing myself too hard; we were doing six shows in a row and all that kind of thing.
~ Wayne Static
If I'm tired one day, then I'll take the day off instead of pushing through it, because then that's when you hurt yourself.
~ Anthony Johnson
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.
~ John C. Maxwell
When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.
~ Ann Romney
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
~ Leonora Carrington
If you're going to play in all three formats, you can't play all the games. You probably play two Test matches, miss the last one and take some time off and maybe come back for the second ODI or second T20.
~ Jofra Archer
People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it. What am I gonna do?
~ Kurt Vile
He had a great deal to think of if he was to get the hang of – he was certainly not going to interfere with – the world and having to listen to conversations that were mostly moral apophthegms had tired him. He got too many at too short intervals.
~ Ford Madox Ford
I don't know. I know nothing. I am very tired.
~ Ford Madox Ford