Defeated Quote by Samuel Johnson

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

— Thomas Carlyle

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and…

— Anonymous

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate,…

— Boris Pasternak

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

— Thomas Carlyle

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature,…

— Boris Pasternak

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.

— Anonymous

Idleness is an enemy of the soul.

— Benedict of Nursia

“In despair there are the most intense enjoyments, especially when one is acutely conscious of the hopelessness of one's position.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude,…

— Seneca

“think a person who has a subdued settled despair in his mind would all of a sudden feel a kind of bounding and exalting…

— Ruskin Bond

Idleness is paralysis.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

— Benjamin Franklin