Quotes About Fatigue

Are you tired? Carol asked calmly. The question seemed not of now but of always.

Your mind indeed is tired. Your mind so tired that it can no longer work at all. You do not think. You dream. Dream all day long. Dream everything. Dream maliciously and incessantly. Don't you know that by now?

Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.15

The lesson to be learned? Just this: our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration, and resentment.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment." —Dale Carnegie

A little extra caffeine this morning. It's gonna be a long day!!

Meina Gladstone sat at the head of the long table and felt the peculiar and not-unpleasant sense of separateness which comes from far too little sleep over far too long a period.

The problem with being passionately in love, I thought, is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

Tightly focused attention gets fatigued—much like an overworked muscle—when we push to the point of cognitive exhaustion. The signs of mental fatigue, such as a drop in effectiveness and a rise in distractedness and irritability, signify that the mental effort needed to sustain focus has depleted the glucose that feeds neural energy.

Como el músculo sometido a un sobreesfuerzo, la atención intensamente focalizada también se fatiga, llegando incluso al punto del agotamiento cognitivo. Los signos de fatiga mental afectan a la eficacia y aumentan la distracción y la irritabilidad, lo que significa que el esfuerzo mental necesario para mantener el foco ha agotado la glucosa que precisa la energía neuronal.

I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?

"No weekend, all weakened."

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more, ' but it's only the moment.

Mr. Bruff, I'm ordered to take exercise and I don't like it. That, added Aunt Ablewhite, pointing out of window to an invalid going by in a chair on wheels, drawn by a man, is my idea of exercise. If it's air you want, you get it in your chair. And if it's fatique you want, I am sure it's fatiquing enough to look at the man.

I must really rest a little before I can get on any farther. When I have reclined for a few minutes, with my eyes closed, and when Louis has refreshed my poor aching temples with a little eau-de-Cologne, I may be able to proceed.

If you are as tired of reading this narrative as I am of writing it—Lord, how we shall enjoy ourselves on both sides a few pages further on!

She felt weary and careworn, in the way one often does before the big job of work is tackled; that sense of premature or projected exhaustion that is the breeding ground of all procrastination.

Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

not even as three women, but merely as three creatures who still possessed the need to eat but took no pleasure in it, the need to sleep but from no joy in weariness or regeneration

Not hungry,' Case managed. His brain was deep-fried. No, he decided, it had been thrown into hot fat and left there, and the fat had cooled, a thick dull grease congealing on the wrinkled lobes, shot through with greenish-purple flashes of pain. 'You

Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

Probabilmente sono troppo stanca» inventò Buttercup. «L'eccitazione e tutto il resto». «Riposati, allora» l'ammonì sua madre. «Quando sei troppo stanca ti succedono cose tremende. Ero troppo stanca la sera in cui tuo padre mi ha chiesto di sposarlo».