Languor Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

Among the numerous luxuries of the table...coffee may be considered as one of the most valuable. It excites cheerfulness without intoxication; and the pleasing flow… — Benjamin Franklin
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain and languor; it's like spending this year part of next year's revenue. — Jonathan Swift
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about… — John Keats
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because… — Will Self
Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, — Derek Walcott
I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography] is a great… — Joel Meyerowitz
The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of… — Thomas Addison
The first, sickness (vyadhi), is a physical obstacle, but the other eight can be considered mental. These include languor (styana), doubt (samshaya), heedlessness (pramada), sloth… — Richard Rosen
Isnâ€™t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isnâ€™t the object always absent? â€”This isnâ€™t the same languor: there are two… — Roland Barthes
That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and… — Anne Rivers Siddons
The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair,… — Evelyn Waugh
A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and… — Ann Radcliffe
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to… — Anton Chekhov
To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, â€œare not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the… — Jorge Luis Borges
Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick… — W. Somerset Maugham
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during… — E. O. Wilson
This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. — H.G. Wells
We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better… — Paul Monette
For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind.… — Karen Marie Moning

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