Calm Quote by Samuel Johnson

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

— Thomas Carlyle

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

— Leigh Hunt

“Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.”

— Victor Hugo

“Under the vague dullness of the gray hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object and finds it in the privation of an untried good.”

— George Eliot

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

— Joseph Addison

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

— Robert Burton

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

— Benjamin Franklin

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

— Italo Calvino

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

— Samora Machel

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but…

— Samuel Johnson

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an…

— Emile Zola