The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
“The town of L— represented the earth, with its sorrows and its graves left behind, yet not out of sight, nor wholly… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
