Reinhold Messner Quotes

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

There are times when I think, 'Do I have the energy to be upset?' and the answer is 'no.'

I think I'm chronically exhausted.

My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

I don't think I could do the four or five days a week in the WWE. I feel bad for them.

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Only when your memories are more important to you than your goals are you old.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

I am so tired, I can hardly type these worfs.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

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.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance.

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

People dont pay attention until they have to

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.