Sloth Quotes

149 quotes by 107 authors

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?… — George Saunders
An unclean person is universally a slothful one. — Henry David Thoreau
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound. — Yann Martel
It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among… — Mark Twain
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. — Samuel Johnson
All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Jack, you've debauched my sloth. — Patrick O'Brian
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at… — Benjamin Franklin
When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have! How woeful is the sloth and… — John Owen
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead… — Douglas Adams
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse… — Charles Dickens
Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth… — Ray Bradbury
You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive… — Hiromu Arakawa
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine â€• that is, activity â€• which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery?… — Margaret George
I envy because of the heart I glutton because of the heart I covet because of the heart I am prideful because of the heart… — Tite Kubo
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt,… — Martin Amis
I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also… — Edward Abbey

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