Listless Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Thoughts jostled for space in my crowded brain as I struggled to give them some order which might serve to motivate my listless life
— Irvine Welsh
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I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against…
— John Steinbeck
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A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the…
— Constance Hale
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The room shall speak, it must catch me up and hold me, I want to feel that I belong here, I want to hearken and…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
— Dante Alighieri
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There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature recognition of my…
— Irvine Welsh
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It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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She wasn't happy, but then she wasn't unhappy. She wasn't anything. But I don't believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside,…
— John Steinbeck
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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on…
— David Nicholls
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His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;
— John Keats
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One listless day followed another, with nothing to distinguish one from the next. You could have changed the order and no one would have noticed.
— Haruki Murakami
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I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they…
— Mark Twain
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George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry…
— Dwight L. Moody
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I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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He was losing her incrementally. It might be a few stray hairs listless on the pillow, or the crescents of bitten fingernails tossed behind the…
— Anthony Marra
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We pull on to the road, where our only company are the wandering cattle, who have become commonplace as traffic lights. Lethargic and listless, they…
— Tom Hiddleston
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Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who Wrote These Listless Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Listless Quotes as follows: