Quotes About Fatigue

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work

My feet hurt, I was light-headed with stress and bad meals, and the idea of perhaps eating real food and sitting in a chair-- or even sleeping in a bed!-- sounded like bliss.

My spring is broken, and a separate exertion is necessary for the lifting up of each — and then it falls down again. I never felt so before: there is no wonder that I should feel so now. Nevertheless, I don't give up much to the pernicious languor — the tendency to lie down to sleep among the snows of a weary journey — I don't give up much to it. Only I find it sometimes at the root of certain negligences — for instance, of this toward you.

Most happily the cold spared us during our six days' journey, which was very pleasant. I like travelling by vetturino. The fatigue is small, and if you take a supply of books with you the time does not hang fire. We had some old Balzacs, which came new (he is one of our gods — heathen, you will say)

Kit bit his cheek on tired laughter, all his irritation draining away. Perhaps I've just been used too much to care any more, he thought.

I didn't want to open my eyes. My head was splitting, and all I wanted to do was lie down and hide.

I've spent more of my life in bed than anybody needs to.

She studied him; he did look drawn, with the waxen countenance she had come to associate with his need.

Insomnia" perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.

Everything that comes into Jean's view these days is met with this kind of abject indifference. She feels as thought she has exhausted her life's allotment of emotion, good and bad.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired.

I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.

A person gets tired. The mind or the soul or whatever word we have for whatever is not just the body gets tired, and this, I have decided, is—usually, mostly—nature helping us. I was getting tired. I think—but I don't know—that he was getting tired too.

the sense of apology did not go away; it was a tiring thing to carry. —

Sarah Payne said, If there is a weakness in your story, address it head-on, take it in your teeth and address it, before the reader really knows. This is where you will get your authority, she said, during one of those classes when her face was filled with fatigue from teaching. I feel that people may not understand that my mother could never say the words I love you. I feel that people may not understand: It was all right.

She could make the bed, do the laundry, feed the dog. But she could not be bothered with any more meals. "What'll we have for supper?" Henry would ask, coming upstairs from the basement. "Strawberries.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

Mantenerse vivo, descubrí durante esos días, da muchas más fatigas que dejarse morir

Correr sólo vale para morir cansado.

Percibí en su voz un tono que ya conocía bien: resignación y ausencia de ilusiones sobre el éxito o fracaso de la empresa; resolución fatigada, silenciosa, desprovista de interés salvo por los detalles técnicos, del soldado veterano dispuesto a afrontar con sencillez un mal rato que forma parte de su oficio.

Cuando nos muramos estaremos tan cansadas que desearemos que no haya otra vida después de ésta.

Algunos, bajo la influencia del deseo, trabajan como esclavos. Se agotan trabajando todo el día y cuando regresan a sus hogares por la noche, están tan cansados que se desploman como cadáveres.

So, like a treasure found at home, That I have gained without fatigue, My enemies are helpers in my Bodhisattva work And therefore they should be a joy to me. 108. Since I have grown in patience Thanks to them, To them its first fruits I should give, For of my patience they have been the cause.