Quotes About Fatigue

She'd had a bad day in a bad month in a worse year and was exhausted by the idea of getting hassled.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.

For too much rest becomes a pain.

night's sleep!' she said. 'Every day I think, gosh you look a bit tired today, and it's just recently occurred to me that it's not that I'm tired,

He did nothing that he wasn't obliged to do because the effort of existence exhausted him. He slept whenever he could. Getting up each morning was like moving his limbs through thick mud.

Sometimes she exhausted herself.

You okay, Mum?" said Rob. "I'm fine," said Rachel. She went to reach for her cup of coffee and found that she didn't have the energy to even lift her arm.

Some days she slouched for endless hours on the sofa, yawning hugely, like someone suffering from terrible jet lag.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

I try not to sleep. It disturbs the circles I'm growing under my eyes.

we mothers lose a lot of sleep, I realized.

Giggling is a plague on the nervous system that I believe is hardwired into some people's physiology and seems to be a reaction to tremendous nerves, fatigue, or self-consciousness. It is rarely a welcome occurrence to the giggler and can feel like going over Niagara Falls without a barrel

On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times they seem completely different elements, as though the body were only a home with which the mind has been associated but by no means bound. Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.... The importance of physical desire and immediate surroundings is submerged in the apprehension of universal values.

It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion that leads anywhere.

He's getting old enough to appreciate, too, that one of the differences between a "perp," as they say in cop shows, and your average newspaper reader is that onlookers are allowed the luxury of getting "fucking tired of the same fucking story" and are free to move on. Culprits are stuck in what must be a tyrannical rehearsal of the same old tale.

Playing a show is a monumental hassle. You've got to schlep all your heavy equipment into the van, then you've got to drive for five hours, then you have to schlep all the heavy equipment out of the van, onto the stage, set it up, do the sound check, hang around for three hours, then play the show, which is incredibly draining.

Working exterior nights in Vancouver, when it's raining and snowing, is a little daunting, when you haven't slept.

I would cry all of the time and I didn't know why! I was having shows and after the show I would go to the room, order a big hamburger and a vanilla shake or something like that... and cry because I was so depressed... I think it was because I was too tired.

Really, you want to have variety as an actor. If you spend your career doing one thing solidly, people get burned out.

Sitting on the airplane seat today, I was thinking - I have been in different cities every week. Most of the time, it's because of golf tournaments. But occasionally, I also attend various events. All of a sudden, I feel like I am a business woman. Although sometimes I feel tired, I do enjoy this kind of life.

I find that when I'm under pressure, I work really well, but then you have those days where you sleep for four hours because you drive to a venue overnight and arrive there the next day, and you're cranky and not dealing with it very well.

To be honest, I was on the verge of thinking I didn't even want to be a film-maker, just because making 'Ratcatcher' had been so tough. Afterwards, I was just ill. Knackered.

Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.