Listless Quotes

23 quotes by 20 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. — Dante Alighieri
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
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
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
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
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
His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; — John Keats
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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