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Quotes About Fatigue

We have then walked, played, or worked enough, so we desist. That amount of fatigue is an efficacious obstruction on this side of which our usual life is cast. But if an unusual necessity forces us to press onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before. We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.
~ William James
I didn't move: I had no moving left in me.
~ China Mieville
Godspit and shit, Jack, don't start with 'the limits of individual action' right now. I'm just tired. Sometimes, don't you sometimes wish you didn't care? I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care." Fishday
~ China Mieville
So when you hear people say that change is hard because people are lazy or resistant, that's just flat wrong. In fact, the opposite is true: Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
~ Chip Heath
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
~ Chip Heath
Et nous sommes en grant poverte, S'est riches de nostre deserte Chil pour qui nous nous traveillons. Des nuis grant partie veillons Et les jours tous, pour gaagnier, Qu'il nous manache a mehaigner Des membres quant nous reposons ; Et pour che reposer n'osons.
~ Chrétien de Troyes
He wouldn't give up, but if i am strict and force myself now to decide upon the precise moment in this whole story when my heart irreparably broke, it was the moment when I saw the weariness and the doubt creep into my son's small muscles as his fingers slipped, for the tenth time, from the pale oak lid.
~ Chris Cleave
You're tired of hearing about racism? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it." ~ Jon Stewart
~ Chris Smith
Ich bin sehr müde. Einen zusammenhängenden Schlaf habe ich seit Wochen nicht gehabt. Unglaubhaft, aber ich könnt jetzt einschlafen. Kann ja nichts mehr verschieben, auch den Schlaf nicht. Ungut, übermüdet in den Tod zu gehen.
~ Christa Wolf
So tired am I, so weary of to-day, So unrefreshed from foregone weariness, So overburdened by foreseen distress, So lagging and so stumbling on my way, I scarce can rouse myself to watch or pray, To hope, or aim, or toil for more or less,-- Ah, always less and less, even while I press Forward and toil and aim as best I may. Half-starved of soul and heartsick utterly, Yet lift I up my heart and soul and eyes Which fail in looking upward
~ Christina G. Rossetti
Ne nuk e shquajmë menjëherë rrugën e drejtë dhe shkelim shumë kohë në drejtime të gabuara, derisa dikur ndihemi të lodhur.
~ Christine Grän
Mother, I make it known publicly: I'm tired of my little brother. Will you please Give him to some charity?
~ Christopher Fry
Die Ermüdbarkeit des Menschen steht in umgekehrtem Verhältnis zu seinen wirklichen Interessen.
~ Heimito Von Doderer
What's the matter, Jess? Why are you sad?' And she'd have to explain that she wasn't sad, just tired, though how she could be so tired in the middle of the day with the sun shining and everything, she didn't know. It made her feel ashamed.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human.
~ Henri Cole
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
~ Henri Matisse
her patience was, perhaps, tired out; for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.
~ Henry Fielding
PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Formerly each separate desire caused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by a bodily function that gave pleasure; but now privation and suffering received no satisfaction, and the attempt at satisfaction caused new suffering.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever.
~ Leonard Cohen
The senator got so tired on the campaign trail that he started kissing hands and shaking babies.
~ letterman david iv
When she looked back the whole thing had a queer, unreal feeling to it, but then again you often get a queer, unreal feeling when you stay up till four and get up at seven.
~ Lev Grossman
And because of everything her family asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired.
~ Lev Grossman
I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident.
~ Bridgit Mendler