Fatigue
medical symptom usually of physical and/or mental weakness that does not resolve with rest or sleep
Fatigue is a lack of energy, which may be caused by normal living or may have other causes, such as illness. [See Tired for tiredness caused by normal living.]
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Quotes
edit- 'the sense of fatigue is often a very fallacious index of the working capacity of the body … there is not necessarily any correspondence between the subjective feelings of fatigue and the capacity of the muscles to perform work '
- Francis Bainbridge, The Physiology of Muscular Exercise, (Longmans, Green and Co, 1931), pp. 176–177.
- 'People who don't see you every day have a hard time understanding how on some days--good days--you can run three miles, but can barely walk across the parking lot on other days,' [my mom] said quietly.
- Jennifer Starzec, Determination, (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 2016)
Dialogue
edit- The Doctor: Don't challenge me, Harriet Jones, 'cos I'm a completely new man! I could bring down your government with a single word!
- Harriet Jones: You're the most remarkable man I've ever met. But I don't think you're quite capable of that.
- The Doctor: No, you're right. Not a single word; just six.
- Harriet Jones: I don't think so.
- The Doctor: Six words.
- Harriet Jones: Stop it!
- The Doctor: Six. Don't you think she looks tired?
- The Doctor as interpreted by David Tennant and Harriet Jones as interpreted by Penelope Wilton; “The Christmas Invasion", Doctor Who, (25 December 2005), written by Russell T Davies
