Tiredness Quotes

• Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: “No!

  Mike Yaconelli

  Tired, Simple, Decisions We Make

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.

  Kevin Brooks

  Eye, Sleep, Thinking

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• On the road to truth, only those who do not know what tiredness and fear means reach the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mean, Knows

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• One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.

  Rachel Cohn

  Communication, Sadness, Cellular

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• His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Hurt, Hurt So Much, Awake

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.274, Macmillan

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• There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Worry, Soul, Inability

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• Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, ‘I can’t.’ As children, they were taught that where there’s a will, there’s a way. To say, ‘I can’t,’ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.

  Alexander Lowen

  Children, Believe, Struggle

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• Throw off your tiredness. Let me show you one tiny spot of the beauty that can't be spoken.

  Rumi

  Tiny, Spots, Let Me

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• She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

  Paolo Giordano

  Tired, Emptiness

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• It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.

  Martin Amis

  Earth, Want, Gravity

  Martin Amis (1995). “The Information”

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• Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Dark, Tyrants

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.29, GENERAL PRESS

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• You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.

  Gail Godwin

  Tired, Cutting, Bulbs

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• The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• Take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Mentally picture all tiredness, tension, and fatigue leaving you. Visualize that a wave of golden light is entering you at the top of your head and passing throughout your entire body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Leaving, Entering

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• Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm.

  Pablo Picasso

  Hands, Drawing, Perception

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• Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out of the tiredness, the fatuousness, the semi- lust of intentional indifference. Be wet with a decent happiness.

  Robert Creeley

  Lying, Rain, Lust

  Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.207, Univ of California Press

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• Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.

  Peter Menzel

  Sleep, Night, Ninety Nine

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• It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

  Markus Zusak

  Night, Hands, Perfect

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Random House

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• What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.

  Henning Mankell

  Suicide, Morning, Mirrors

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jan 07, 2013

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• When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath... I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will. After each few metres this too fizzles out in unending tiredness. Then I think nothing. I let myself fall, just lie there. For an indefinite time I remain completely irresolute. Then I make a few steps again.

  Reinhold Messner

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• ...to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is near. He does comfort, if we let Him. Perhaps someone as weak and good-for-nothing as even I am may read this. Don't be afraid! Through all circumstances, outside, inside, He can keep me close.

  Amy Carmichael

  Loneliness, Inspiration, Sadness

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• Good athletes do not know what tiredness is. They do not know what discouragement is. Good athletes only know what victory is.

  Fidel Castro

  Success, Athlete, Victory

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• After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

  Hermann Buhl

  Climbing, Should, Found

  Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

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• Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

  Virginia Wade

  Determination, Tennis, Balance

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