Quotes About Unproductivity

We didn't get anything done! She looked around vaguely, then wandered along the corridor to the

passing the time without any labor of intelligence

For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me the taste, even the passion for being unproductive: what was the use of being prized in a world inhabited by madmen, a world mired in mania and stupidity? For whom was one to bother, and to what end? It remains to be seen if I have quite freed myself from this certitude, salvation in the absolute, ruin in the immediate.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. He's done nothing for so long that nothing is all he can do.

He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.

Making unnecessary noises when you're bored...we all do it.

time-wasting dominoes

It might seem as if he's been sitting around eating M& M's and scratching his ass for the past few months.