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Quotes About Fatigue

Any extra free time you have, you are sleeping, or you're trying to sleep
~ Jordin Sparks
I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.
~ Paulo Coelho
I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.
~ John Bonham
When you're short on sleep, you're short on patience. You're ruder to people, less tolerant, less understanding. It's harder to relate and to pay attention for sustained periods of time.
~ Jason Fried
Success and rest don't sleep together.
~ Og Mandino
She spread her hands over her face, but wearily this time. There were no tears left.
~ Mary Balogh
The strain of a long illness will exhaust the most compassionate.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Tenzij u iets beters weet, dottore, stel ik voor dat we dit verderfelijke moeras optillen en als een natte doek over het centrum van de stad leggen.' 'Geheel en al wat ook ikzelve vind!' zei de geleerde. Matt was bijna hysterisch van vermoeidheid. Strak plan,' zei hij. 'Doen we even. Koud kunstje.
~ Mary Hoffman
Her face was red and beaded with sweat. Her eyes looked terribly tired.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
For every twenty-four hours awake, Belenky told me, people lose 25 percent of their capacity for useful mental work.
~ Mary Roach
After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
~ Mary Shelley
Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes. How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!
~ Mary Shelley
Remember, I am not recording the vision of a madman. The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens, than that which I now affirm is true. Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But the funniest one they showed us was about the need for leisure time. I was sitting next to women who work until one in the morning every day. And here they were telling us that when a person does not get any rest, he becomes a destructive member of society because of the elevated risk of accidents. The women were laughing so hard they fell off their chairs.
~ Masha Gessen
Low-intensity, high-volume training develops the sort of suffering tolerance that enhances fatigue resistance more effectively than does speed-based training. Fast runs may hurt more, but long runs hurt longer. The slow-burn type of suffering that runners experience in longer, less intense workouts is more specific to racing.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
It is important to understand that the duration of exercise matters far more than does the intensity of exercise with respect to the goal of enhancing fatigue resistance in the brain. What counts is not how hard the muscles are working but rather how long the brain is required to stay focused on the task at hand. In fact, research has shown that the brain can be fatigued at rest in a way that increases fatigue resistance and physical endurance.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
Now, on his way to another lecture, the very thought of entering a room full of students, who still thought it was possible to learn all about something, made him yawn.
~ Matthew Pearl
He looked up. His eyes were red, like he had not slept, and there was shade around his jawline. His curly hair stood on end. He looked tumbled and . . . attractive.
~ Maureen Johnson
But...he had had a long night, and it seemed a waste to force my story on him when he was half asleep.
~ Maureen Johnson
Do people sleep a lot because they're tired or because they want to escape from something?
~ Ayn Rand
we do not care. We care for nothing on earth. We are tired.
~ Ayn Rand
Aku tersandung pada salah satu rahasia yang tersimpan dengan baik tentang orang-orang kulit hitam: kebanyakan orang kulit hitam tidak tertarik dengan revolusi; kebanyakan kami merasa lelah dengan masalah ras.
~ Barack Obama
But I missed my wife. I missed my kids. I missed my bed, a consistent shower, sitting at a proper table for a proper meal. I missed not having to say the exact same thing the exact same way five or six or seven times a day.
~ Barack Obama
I've been having nightmares," she said quietly. "Basically the same dream for months now. I'm exhausted.
~ Barbara Davis