Acedia Quotes
6 quotes by 4 authors
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous…
— Richard Louv
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s an antecedent to sloth, the…
— Mishka
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Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your…
— Mishka
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of…
— Adam Gopnik
Who Wrote These Acedia Quotes
4 authors contributed a total of 6 Acedia Quotes as follows: