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Quotes About Fatigue

He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking.
~ Paul Bowles
Dotar la vida de significado requiere energía y, en aquel momento, estaba falto de ella.
~ Paul Bowles
Duša je najumorniji dio tijela.
~ Paul Bowles
People always tell you that night school is a good thing,' I said. 'But they are the same people who go home after a day's work and eat and snooze and listen to the radio. You students are doing one of the hardest things in the world- studying at night, when you're tired ...
~ Paul Theroux
Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
~ Paulo Coelho
Snatches, cleans and jerks can be performed for any number of repetitions, from one to hundreds. Leave all the sets of more than ten reps for the very end of the workout to avoid their negative effect on your presses. The exception is when your presses have become too easy and you have not saved up for a heavier kettlebell yet. Understand that performing strength drills on the background of pronounced fatigue is only marginally effective.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
Train the press in a similar fashion. First, give an adequate load to the weaker arm (3-5 sets till substantial fatigue), then to the strong one. Once a week, perform a full cycle of the exercises (in 2-3 sets—as in a competition): press the kettlebell out with one arm until total exhaustion, and then repeat the drill with the other arm, without setting the kettlebell down on the platform.
~ Pavel Tsatsouline
She is tired to the heart," Ying muttered. "She is tired because in this great house all feed on her, like suckling children.
~ Pearl S. Buck
even on medication, there is nothing tempting enough to make me want to rise
~ Daphne Merkin
Alice opened the door when I rang. She had on green pyjamas and held a hairbrush in one hand. She looked wearily at Quinn and spoke wearily: Bring it in. I took it in and spread it on a bed. It mumbled something I could not make out and moved one hand feebly back and forth, but its eyes stayed shut.
~ Dashiell Hammett
The body can endure practically anything--pain, fatigue, you name it-- but its the mind that matters.
~ Dave Pelzer
The cognitive scientists have now proven the reality of "decision fatigue"—that every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.
~ David Allen
every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power. Deciding to "not decide" about an e-mail or anything else is another one of those decisions, which drains your psychological fuel tank.
~ David Allen
room. It was four a.m. and he had not yet been to sleep.
~ David Baldacci
My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired.
~ David Foster Wallace
L'odio che provi a fine giornata per tutto il lavoro è semplicemente parte del lavoro
~ David Foster Wallace
El odio que se siente por el trabajo al final del día no es más que una parte del trabajo
~ David Foster Wallace
Time has dealt kindly with that stout officer, as it does ordinarily with men who have good stomachs and good tempers, and are not perplexed over much by fatigue of the brain.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Mi sueño es agitado. Mis nervios están desquiciados. Mi piel está seca. Mi cabello cae. Mis ojos están apagados. Las uñas de mis manos y mis pies están quebradizas. Estoy envejeciendo. Comienzo a no encontrar gusto en cosa alguna. Empiezo a aburrirme de las cosas buenas, como me aburro de las malas. Estoy muriendo. Estoy muriendo y no tengo hijos.
~ William Saroyan
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
~ William Shakespeare
one of the most unendurable aspects of such an interlude was the inability to sleep (...) the disruption of normal sleep patterns is a notoriously devastating feature of depression (...). It had become clear that I would never be granted even a few minutes' relief from my full-time exhaustion.
~ William Styron
I'm bored with it all. - Last Words
~ Winston Churchill
She pushed the bolt across the door and sat abruptly in the first chair. Her romance was over; even though she rebelled against the fact, she knew that it was so. She felt faint and sick and desperately tired of being alive. If death could come quietly and peacefully she would accept it, would sink into it as one sank into a bed wanting only sleep and self-forgetfulness.
~ Winston Graham
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction." As
~ Christopher McDougall