Quotes About Fatigue

This morning I slept late after the fatigues of yesterday...I feel strangely sad and low-spirited to-day. I suppose it is the reaction from the terrible excitement...I didn't feel sleepy, and I did feel full of devouring anxiety...it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.

Sometimes good people grow weary of society.

I have been through hell...And I'm really tired.

The fact is that your productivity begins to decline after eight or nine hours of work. For this reason, working long hours into the night, although it is sometimes necessary, means that you are usually producing less and less in more and more time. The more tired you become, the worse the quality of your work will be and the more mistakes you will make. At a certain point, you can reach "the wall" and simply be unable to continue, like a battery that is run down.

You're burning the candle at both ends, Kid . . . (He moves from the table across the room.) And in my humble opinion the light ain't worth it.

He sagged to his knees. He ached all over. It wasn't just that his brain was writing cheques that his body couldn't cash. It had gone beyond that. Now his feet were borrowing money that his legs hadn't got, and his back muscles were looking for loose change under the sofa cushions.

She needed so badly to sleep, but could not quiet the chaos in her head.

Dreams drain the spirit if we dream too long.

I have bad days, days when I just don't want to do anything. Just kind of want to lay in bed.

After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued.

Round-the-clock security meant that some of them got stuck on the day shift, which was hard on vampires. At least I assumed that was why, after a week or two, they started looking a little peaked.

Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity.

Shush sweet baby, I said, so tired, and mixed her gripe water with whiskey and dill weed, but it did no good, so I seen now why lullabies was all about cradles falling from trees, oh dear, when the wind blows, down will come baby, whoops too bad, but at least it's quiet.

I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o'clock in the morning.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

Au Quinze-Cents, on sert le monde. On vient fatigué de servir le monde. On se tanne donc de servir le monde...Mais en soirée, le monde...ah!

When you have children, you'll never be able to worry about a friend as much again," Dov said. "I'm tired," Sadie said. "I should go." Sadie hung up the phone. She pulled Sam's blanket over her head, and then she went to sleep.

Ant shrugged. "What's better than work?" He paused. "What's worse than work?

But the truth is that many animals perish because they have plain run out of steam.

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

Sometimes we sleep because we want to, sometimes because we need it, and sometimes we sleep in self-defense.

Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.

Do not practice finely skilled movements after you are tired, for you will begin to substitute gross motions for finer ones and generalized efforts for specific ones. Remember, wrong movements tend to supervene and the athlete's progress is set back. Thus, the athlete practices fine skills only while he is fresh. When he becomes fatigued, he shifts to tasks employing gross movements designed principally to develop endurance.