Ken Kesey Quotes

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

You live during the match, and you have strong emotions, but you don't want to get too overexcited. My body's totally flat now. I cannot move anymore. I'm totally exhausted, just because of the tension out there.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

The emotional stakes a memoirist bets with could not be higher, and it's physically enervating. I nap on a daily basis like a cross-country trucker.

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

Signs of fatigue soon manifested themselves more and more strongly, and slowly the men dropped out one by one, from sheer exhaustion. No murmur of complaint, however, would be heard.

There are days when I am just dead on the floor, and I'm there in my makeup, and that's getting a little tiring.

There are days where I'm at the facility almost all day long. It's definitely demanding mentally and physically.

My mind can't always be on fighting.

Even the biggest heroes turn into cowards when they get tired.

When you get that tired, it becomes really challenging to keep bringing your best foot forward.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

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

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

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.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself against the wall and press my forehead to my hands. It’s difficult to take deep breaths, so I take short, shallow ones. I can’t let this happen. They attacked me to make me feel weak. I can pretend they succeeded to protect myself, but I can’t let it become true.

Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one emotional upset after the other just going on and on for the rest of my life.

It was strange how easy being tired enough made it.

There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

It was hard not to feel violated [in Stone movie], 'cause I have to go home after walking in these shoes all day. It plays a number on your head. Some days I came home and was really upset; it was hard to see the baby [Jovovich's 2-year-old daughter].

… but only because exhaustion is a life-sign; it is at least a form of being human.