Acedia Quotes

6 quotes by 4 authors

• Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin
• Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart. — Mignon McLaughlin
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 2 Acedia Quotes by Mishka
• 2 Acedia Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
• 1 Acedia Quote by Richard Louv
• 1 Acedia Quote by Adam Gopnik