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Quotes About Fatigue

I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The earth grieves, and I grieve, and I am weary of the fight
~ Sherryl Jordan
I´m tired, Natalie told herself sadly, and was quiet
~ Shirley Jackson
C'est si fatigant de détester quelqu'un qu'on aime.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves. If one pays attention with this intention, fifteen minutes of attention is worth a lot of good works.
~ Simone Weil
Physical labour is a daily death
~ Simone Weil
L'esclave est celui à qui il n'est proposé aucun bien comme but de ses fatigues, sinon la simple existence. Il doit alors ou être détaché ou tombé au niveau végétatif
~ Simone Weil
Aucune maison étrangère n'est si étrangère que cette usine où on dépense quotidiennement ses forces pendant huit heures.
~ Simone Weil
When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.
~ Hamilton Leithauser
Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit.
~ Hester Lynch Piozzi
Worldly life (sansar) means to get tired and to rest.
~ Dada Bhagwan
Existing is exhausting.I want to live - How to be
~ P.A. Bitez, Soft Tortures
She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn't really a smile at all, and they went on.
~ Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
If one word applied to that post-war decade it was inertia. Enthusiasm there was not, in this climate of fatigue. Jimmy Porter was hurt because things had remained the same. Colonel Redfern grieved that everything had changed. They were both wrong, but that was hard to see at the time.
~ John Osborne
El esfuerzo que hemos dedicado a intentar que suceda nos ha dejado agotados mental y emocionalmente
~ John Purkiss
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
~ John Ruskin
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
~ John Ruskin
His dress became neglected, and he wandered, as often exposed to the noon-day sun as to the midnight damps. He was no longer to be recognized; at first he returned with the evening to the house; but at last he laid him down to rest wherever fatigue overtook him. His sister, anxious for his safety, employed people to follow him; but they were soon distanced by him who fled from a pursuer swifter than any - from thought.
~ John William Polidori
Their lives had been expended in cheerless labor, their wills broken, their intelligences numbed.
~ John Williams
He was drained of feeling, and he felt very old and tired.
~ John Williams
I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I'm too exhausted to sleep
~ Ellen Datlow
To replace ME/CFS, the [Institute of Medicine] committee proposes the name systemic exertion intolerance disease, or SEID. This name captures a central characteristic of the disease: the fact that exertion of any sort— physical, cognitive, or emotional—can adversely affect patients in many organ systems and in many aspects of their lives.
~ Ellen Wright Clayton