Quotes About Inactivity

Hopelessness generates inactivity.

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.

Wore out from all that, I did what we call shilly-shally. Poking round up to no good.

All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

They dig holes from time to time,' the Colonel explains. 'It is probably for them what chess is for me. It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. All of us dig at our own pure holes. We have nothing to achieve by our activities, nowhere to get to. Is there not something marvelous about this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. No victory, no defeat.

I can't read, can't listen to music. I can't do anything but just sit there, waiting for morning to come.

Forced idleness is a terrible thing.

I am very scared of sitting without work.

Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

Mr. Schlubb, the pear-shaped PE teacher, sent us all out to run half a dozen laps around a preposterously enormous cinder track. For the Greenwood kids—all of us white, marshmallowy, innately unphysical, squinting unfamiliarly in the bright sunshine—it was a shock to the system of an unprecedented order.

La infancia y la vejez se parecen. En ambos casos, por motivos diferentes, somos más bien inermes, todavía no participamos —o ya no participamos— en la vida activa y eso nos permite vivir con una sensibilidad sin esquemas, abierta.

Mentally I have led a vegetable existence this summer.

An idle mind is the Devil's seedbed.

yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.

La guitarra en el ropero para siempre está colgada, nadie en ella toca nada ni hace sus cuerdas sonar.

I don't get involved in football! I haven't got a sporty bone in my body.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Televisio is a vehicle that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

The number one sign you have nothing to do at work: The 4th Division of Paperclips has overrun the Pushpin Infantry and General White-Out has called for a new skirmish.

In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.

No yoga. I can barely sit down.

I'm incredibly lazy. On a day off, I'm more likely to be sitting on our sofa reading a book than out and about being active. I sometimes do a bit of yoga but I find it hard to get motivated for any kind of physical exercise.