Indolence Quotes

89 Indolence quotes by 74 unique authors

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one. — John Ruskin
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who would not be idle, let him fall in love. — Unknown Author
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence. — David Hume
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain… — David Riesman
There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from… — Franz Kafka
Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. — Francois Rabelais
Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. — Tacitus
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets… — Stephen King
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. — John Keats
Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of… — Jean Cocteau
Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing. — Noel Coward
I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on… — Christopher Isherwood
Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it… — Isaac Newton
When I had spent a few days without thinking, without doing anything, I would feel a sudden urge to paint. Then I would set up… — Maurice de Vlaminck
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I… — Michael Flanders
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring… — Tom Hodgkinson
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. — Bob Hope
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence. — Tom Stoppard
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor. — Edward Gibbon
Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred;… — Elizabeth Goudge

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