Character Quote by Tryon Edwards

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the…

— William Hazlitt

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

— Bernard Williams

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

— Samuel Johnson

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a…

— William Shenstone

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

— Anonymous

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

— Thomas Hood

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence

— Thomas Jefferson

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

— Robert A. Burton

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Enter with me into the sufferings, not only of the people of India but of the whole world. Nonviolence is a more active and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.

— Nathaniel Altman