At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

Although mechanical energy is indestructible, there is a universal tendency to its dissipation, which produces throughout the system a gradual augmentation and diffusion of…

— Lord Kelvin

To achieve deep focus nowadays is also to have struck a blow against the dissipation of self; it is to have strengthened one's essential…

— Sven Birkerts

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of…

— William Shenstone

The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada),…

— Richard Rosen

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

— Mark Twain

Dissipation: stupidity in despair.

— Anonymous

“With great power comes great dissipation.”

— Timothy Poston

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more…

— Hannah More

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

— Evelyn Waugh

Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.

— Anonymous

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over…

— Adrian Rogers

Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousy, it is the sacrificial altar of health, it…

— Thomas De Witt Talmage

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

— William Butler Yeats

“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for…

— Peter Guthrie Tait