“The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.” WorldSoulConsciousnessWorstProduceEmotionalWeightBreathsAbstractFatigueShortness Author:Fernando Pessoa
“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.” PeopleLittlesBookMomentsPastKnownVisionMagicProduceIntenseExcitementDelightfulFatigueMotorInvolvingUnwrittenMagic Moments Book:Name of the Rose Source: Name of the Rose
“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.” ThinkingTwoHardProblemThreeFeltHoursProduceStrangeSevereThree TimesFatigueBreakdown Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.” MindLittlesIdeasSoulHardWholeCareDiesEnergyProduceLaborSoilSandFacultyTemperWornExhaustedDispositionToilFatigueConfinedThornsBarrenArabiaWorn OutThistlesScorching Author:Maria W. Stewart