Accumulation Quote by Alain de Botton

“As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to…

— Virginia Woolf

“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part of a…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“There was very little that his position called upon him to do, but there was much that it forbad him to do. It was…

— Anthony Trollope

“[...] under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values Osmond lived exclusively for the world. Far from being its master as he pretended…

— Henry James

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty…

— Samuel Johnson

“It was as if he'd suddenly become intimately aware of the fragility of life and how precious time really was. As a result, he…

— Micah Sparks

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil…

— Anonymous

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with…

— Samuel Johnson

“For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he’d always felt that it was worth doing…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

“I will set aside the point that I see no special heroism in accumulating money, particularly if, in addition, the person is foolish enough…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb