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Quotes About Fatigue

A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights.
~ Alan Jay Lerner
Work is what horses die of
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Willpower isn't just a skill. It's a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there's less power left over for other things.
~ Charles Duhigg
For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
~ Charles Kingsley
When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I'm through a series, I'm so drained I don't want to get near the camera.
~ Cindy Sherman
In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.
~ Horace
I'm certainly not tired - work doesn't tire people, it's getting bored that's tiring.
~ Indira Gandhi
Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
~ Warren Christopher
I think, mentally, you sometimes need a break. But for me, my body is built so that if I don't work out, that's when I put more stress on my body and get more tired.
~ Ichiro Suzuki
Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.
~ Keri Russell
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough.
~ Tom Berenger
With 'Strictly,' I am mentally and physically knackered: everything aches. I knew it would be hard, but I never thought it would be this tough.
~ Ricky Whittle
Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.
~ Fritz Kreisler
The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion.
~ Mark Fisher
We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired... Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
~ Unknown
No real reason for the lack of sleep, it's a disadvantage of rotating shifts that every so often your body clock just throws up it's hands in despair and goes to sulk behind the sofa – leaving you suffering insomnia and/or intense fatigue.
~ Unknown
If you live in a chronic state of stress and anxiety, it's inevitable that depression, fatigue, and a few extra pounds will be your constant companions. Having
~ Tony Horton
Below his tired eyes there were deep smoke-colored shadows, and two wrinkles ran down his cheeks as if they were tracks made by tears.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
The Hemulen slid down onto the grass completely exhausted. "Oh!" he moaned. "There has never been anything but trouble and danger since I came into the Moomin family.
~ Tove Jansson
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
~ Tracy Chevalier
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
~ Tracy Chevalier
And then without warning, his eyes closed, his chin dropped to his chest, and he fell asleep.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
I'm tired of fighting … I can't fight any more." Those were his last words.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Matisse said, "A work of art must, both for the businessman and for the artist, be a mental tranquilizer, something in the nature of an armchair that gives him ease and comfort after bodily fatigue.
~ Patrick O'Brian