best quotations about
Fatigue |
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Quotations
 | Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 9 likes |
 | Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 9 likes |
 | If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 7 likes |
 | Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 5 likes |
 | The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes |
 | Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | I don’t know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness. — William Maxwell, 1908-2000, American writer 4 likes |
 | Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 4 likes |
 | Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 3 likes |
 | The bed is a piece of furniture where one rests when alone and gets tired when with someone else. — André Prévot, 1910-????, French intellectual 3 likes |
 | The truth is that men are tired of liberty. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 3 likes |
 | When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired. — Francis Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, American writer 2 likes |
 | I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | It is so tiring to hate someone you love. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 1 likes |
 | One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings. — Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist 1 likes |
 | Nothing is more tiring than laziness. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
 | Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one. — Ernest Renan, 1823-1892, French philosopher & historian 1 likes |
 | Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 1 likes |
 | I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 1 likes |
 | I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had. — Thomas Mann, 1875-1955, German writer [Nobel 1929] 1 likes |
 | Fatigue makes cowards of all of us. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired. — Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020 1 likes |
