Fatigue Quotes

Fatigue is the best pillow. (Benjamin Franklin)
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. View quote
Thomas Paine
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. View quote
André Gide
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations. View quote
Andrew Weil
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue. View quote
Leonora Carrington
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love have overcome. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. (Umberto Eco)
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a word, embroidered. View quote
Margaret Atwood
Ina regular and constant employment the greatest result will always be gained by such a rate as allows a workman each day, or each week at the most, to recover all fatigue and recommence with an undiminished store of energy. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world. View quote
John Vanbrugh
Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. View quote
Charles Babbage
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
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. View quote
Henri Matisse
Journey over all the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. (Gabriel García Márquez)
We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it. ... I have myself observed that in states of extreme fatigue, when I am really dangerously physically exhausted, I suddenly get absolute knowledge; ... View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter. View quote
Colum McCann
I am actually in poor health due to chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome, and my ability to work is greatly diminished right now, so I have to get better before I can start another big project. View quote
Laura Hillenbrand