Listlessness Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nothing is more curious and awkward than the relationship of two people who only know each other with their eyes — who meet and observe…
— Thomas Mann
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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
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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
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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: