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Quotes About Fatigue

If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
~ Guy Pearce
If you're down to 6% body fat, which I've done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you're pretty much done, and then you're useless.
~ Daniel Wu
You know that thing where you repeat a word over and over until it just sounds like utter gibberish? That's what doing a day of press on a film is like. Ten interviews in a row, all asking pretty much the same questions until you find yourself giving pretty much the same answers.
~ John Niven
I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.
~ Rachael Ray
We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't know it.
~ George Cukor
In my experience, there are only two valid reasons to take a company public: access to growth capital and investor fatigue.
~ Jay Samit
It was Spam, but everyone was too tired to complain.
~ Jasper Fforde
Once I got over feeling sick in the morning, I've been feeling good," Levela said. "Vigorous and strong. Although, lately, I get tired easily. I want to sleep late and take naps in the day, and sometimes if I stand for a long time, my back hurts." "Sounds about right, wouldn't you say," Velima said, smiling at her daughter. "Just the way you are supposed to feel.
~ Jean M. Auel
My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I'm going to sleep.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.
~ Jean Paul Sartre
La Solitude!...J'aurais mauvaise grâce à en craindre le visage, maintenant qu'il est fatigué et qu'il n'a plus ses belles promesses
~ Unknown
I was not so sure but too tired and too relieved to go further that night. To reach one another again had been far enough.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I can't stay here. These wars will never end. Even if we get home, there'll be another war. I thought he'd end wars for ever, that's what he said. One more, he said, one more and then there'll be peace and it's always been one more. I want to stop now.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Dreams were so tiring that she wondered how anybody ever dared to go to sleep at night.
~ Jeanette Winterson
So it comes to this; one doesn't need rest. Why bother about sleep if one isn't sleepy? That stands to reason, doesn't it? Wait a minute, there's a snag somewhere; something disagreeable. Why, now, should it be disagreeable? …Ah, I see; it's life without a break.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
When I was young, I worked for a capitalist twelve hours a day and I was always tired. Now I work for myself twenty hours a day and I never get tired
~ Nikita Khrushchev
We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
~ Stephen Covey
What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.
~ Thomas De Witt Talmage
Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Workplace accidents with people who are sleep deprived or people who work shifts and they don't get the right amount of sleep during the day or at night.
~ Shelby Harris
I would be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.
~ Etty Hillesum
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
~ Alan Cumming