You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
— Norman Vincent Peale
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
— William Wordsworth
Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went toward night.