Torpor Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical… — Nikolai Berdyaev
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this… — John Herschel
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the… — Gerard De Nerval
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. — William Cobbett
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable… — Fernando Pessoa
Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. — William Godwin
For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer… — Edith Wharton
Don Quixote followed nature, and being satisfied with his first sleep, did not solicit more. As for Sancho, he never wanted a second, for the… — Miguel de Cervantes
Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor. — Ogden Nash
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting… — William Wordsworth
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented… — Ian Mcewan
Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in… — Studs Terkel
I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything… — Tina Fey
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor,… — Jean Cocteau
Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only… — Scott Stossel

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