Quotes About Fatigue

Get a boxer and get him wrestling for a minute or two - the arms get so heavy, filled with blood, they can't even hold them up any more, they can't box.

And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.

I can't work 12 hours a day, every day for too long before it burns out.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

I suck at sleeping.

I'm always like this after fights - I can't sleep, I'm only getting a couple of hours a night for three or four days then all of a sudden I'm wiped out for a full night where I don't even move.

I suffer really badly with insomnia.

As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.

I suffer mightily at the 7 A.M. calls. I'm happy as a clam on the 7 P.M. calls.

You have to be careful that you do not overdo things with too many games, because the quality must not suffer. Fans would then also turn away and the interest would subside.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.

If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.

What happens when you have to use your top guys so much, they're going to hit a wall at some point, and they'll go four or five games where they just don't have the juice to play at the level that you need, and therefore your team suffers a little bit.

May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?

I am sick of living out of a suitcase.

I never manage to get to bed early on Sunday night but this doesn't matter, as I don't know one level of exhaustion from another.

And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast.

People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired. And that small part tries to kill off the entire person.

Then you don't care any more? I care so much I'm sick.

Let me make it clear. People die every day, psychologically speaking. Some part of them gets tired.

No puedo más, de veras. Estoy entumecido y cansado. Hoy han ocurrido demasiadas cosas. Me siento como si hubiera pasado cuarenta y ocho horas bajo una lluvia torrencial, sin paraguas ni impermeable. Estoy empapado hasta los huesos de emoción.

It was rather like a forced-on numbness of spirit. The long, long stress of a gale does it; the suspense of the interminably culminating catastrophe; and there is a bodily fatigue in the mere holding on to existence within the excessive tumult; a searching and insidious fatigue that penetrates deep into a man's breast to cast down and sadden his heart, which is incorrigible, and of all the gifts of the earth - even before life itself - aspires to peace.