7 Quotes Tagged: tiredness

I am still tired, and I begin to realize that the cure for tiredness is not rest.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

He’s drifting off, and the movie is beginning to blur together with half-formed dreams. Tomorrow, he’ll have trouble remembering which bits of the story were actually part of the movie and which bits he made up in his sleep.

It must then have been nearly midnight: but so slowly did I creep along, that I heard a clock in a cottage strike four before I turned down the lane from Slough to Eton.

I'll spare you the rest of our conversations. I'm very calm and take no notice of all the fuss. I've reached the point where I hardly ccare whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end.

He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.

Cansado do universo e sociedade,
Da abstracção que não finda o que é fundo
Do meu fatal pôr-olhos sobre o mundo,
Pobre de amor e rico de ansiedade,
Já nada me seduz nem me persuade.