Quotes About Inactivity

They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all.

But, if you read science journals or the inside of Snapple caps, you might already know that watching TV is the closest you can get to being dead, which is why it's so relaxing.

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

Retired people don't so much die as they let themselves fall asleep a bit at a time. They become passive and inactive and they forget they're alive.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

I woke up in the morning and I didn't want anything, didn't do anything, couldn't do it anyway, just lay there listening to the blood rush through me and it never made any sense, anything.

Prefieren un régimen de inactividad y una

two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weedThat rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf.

The easiest way to reduce this waste problem is not to generate heat; in other words, keep still and don't work. Hence such social adaptations as the siesta, which is designed to keep people inactive in the heat of midday. In British India, the saying had it, only mad dogs and Englishmen went out in the noonday sun. The natives knew better.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Maybe you grew up in an environment where people just sat around watching TV and waiting for stuff to happen to them.

se derrumbó del todo cuando descubrió los placeres del fracaso, la serenidad de la abulia absoluta, la venenosa satisfacción de estar todo el día en la cama, sin otro compromiso que esperar la llegada de un nuevo día de pasividad, de estricta indolencia.

One of the top political issues of the day is how to combat young people not being active anymore.

I'm pretty much a couch potato.

I am a couch potato!

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

I can think of a lot of things to do, he said, and none of them involve standing up. - Al

You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

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