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Quotes About Fatigue

Why did you stay so faithful? Oh, I wasn't so good—I was just tired of them. Men. They're stressful. You'll see.
~ Louise Erdrich
Travel is very useful and it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our own journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, simply a fictitious narrative.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength. It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so and he's never wrong. And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes. It's on the other side of life.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
In fatigue and solitude men emanate the divine.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I was so tired when I set out that hard as I tried I couldn't properly visualize my own murder, I couldn't fill in the details.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I try to tell myself I must accept certain private inevitabilities. I will live a life of continual deep fatigue, for example. I will carry in me, like a poison, like a virus, rancor for most things, and while this condition will not improve, nonetheless I will learn to live with my rancor as if it were a minor irritation. There will be many achievable things that I will not do and then there will come a time when I realize they are no longer even achievable.
~ Luke Davies
Ironically, even the torrent of media coverage figured as an additional reason, creating a kind of scandal fatigue as allegations surfaced, often in the form of anonymous leaks, and were initially spun by an administration under intense political heat, then dismissed as "old news" when later confirmed by hard evidence.
~ Malcolm Byrne
He was maxed out. He had no resources left to do anything else. That's what happens when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You start missing things—things that you would pick up on any other day.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
That's what happens when you're tired. Your decision-making skills erode. You start missing things—things that you would pick up on any other day.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In 52 percent of crashes, the pilot at the time of the accident has been awake for twelve hours or more, meaning that he is tired and not thinking sharply.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Oh god, success is so exhausting.
~ Laurie Simmons
Avoid making important or long-term decisions when you are fatigued mentally, emotionally or physically.
~ Mensah Oteh
The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
The strongest have their moments of fatigue.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Probably jet lag.
~ Amy Tan
Big dreams, are so damn tiring.
~ Andre Agassi
The quickest way to make people forget a scandal is to talk about it as much as possible, on television, in the papers, and so on. Over and over you flog the same dead horse, and pretty soon people start getting fed up. 'They're really dragging this out!' they say. 'Haven't we had enough?' After a couple of weeks the saturation effect is such that nobody wants to hear another word about that scandal.
~ Andrea Camilleri
I hate the loss of diversity in the world, even though I sometimes get a little worn out by being that diversity.
~ Andrew Solomon
I rarely feel such clear signs of fatigue and anxiety on days that are filled with travel, meetings and assignments—only when I stop to rest. Without sabbath, I would be dangerously ignorant of the true condition of my soul.
~ Andy Crouch
Were you frightened? One gets tired of being frightened, wouldn't you agree?
~ Anita Shreve
Life is one long process of getting tired.
~ Samuel Butler
when Mrs. Risenshein arrested and I was surprised to hear myself cursing under my breath as I resuscitated her, "I wish she would die so I could just go to sleep," and I was shocked when I realized that I'd just wished a human being dead so I could go to sleep. Animal. Eat
~ Samuel Shem
I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.
~ Sara Gruen