Quotes About Inactivity

When I have time off, all I want to do is do nothing.

From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.

andava, e se andava era porque a alma, quando a inquietação a invade, exige movimento, não pode ficar no lugar, por quando fica imóvel a dor fica terrível

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

It's my husband. I think— I think he's a zombie." I smiled. "Believe it or not, I get this one a lot. Can you describe his behavior? Why do you think he's a zombie?" She huffed. "He doesn't do anything! He sits on the sofa all day watching TV and that's it.

It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.

An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again.

Winter The season between autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere the coldest months of the year: December, January and February. A period of inactivity or decay.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

Nothing brings the relentless flight of time and the cruel perishability of all blossoms more painfully to our consciousness than an inactive and empty life.

And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons.

Leisure: A fancy word for people who don't want to admit they're bored.

The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.

Weeks passed, Vincent did nothing - just ate, slept or sat staring at one point. [...] He wandered around the neighborhood in order to stretch his legs or just for pleasure. He walked because he was annoyed to lie, to sit or to stand. When he got tired of walking, he was sitting, lying or standing.

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.