Listlessness Quotes

10 quotes by 10 authors

Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor;… — John of Damascus
Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are… — Evagrius Ponticus
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil… — William Wordsworth
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.… — George Orwell
Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. Let me look up from it - as at last… — Charles Dickens
In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when… — Douglas Adams
Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes â€” who meet and observe… — Thomas Mann
His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull… — Jane Austen
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness… — Herodotus

Who Wrote These Listlessness Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 10 Listlessness Quotes as follows: