Quotes About Idleness

Idleness is the great corrupter of youth, and the bane and dishonor of middle age. He who, in the prime of life, finds time to hang heavy on his hands, may with much reason suspect that he has not consulted the duties which the consideration of his age imposed upon him; assuredly he has not consulted his happiness.

Doing nothing is exhausting. I need to rest in case we do nothing again later.

"Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools"

people have an instinct to be useful and can't handle the relentless everydayness of life unless they work hard. It is sheer idleness that deadens the soul and causes neuroses.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Those who sleep both day and night do have empty evenings.

There are idlers and idlers, who form a contrast.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Rest is a good thing, but boredom is its brother.

I am persuaded that normal human beings are biologically built for an activity that is aimed toward a goal and that idleness, or aimless work (like Auschwitz's Arbeit), gives rise to suffering and to atrophy.

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.

Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter [that is, her fellow cities] had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy." Ezekiel 16:49

Idleness would have seemed not only a sign of moral decay, but an affront to the natural order of things.

Drivers are not good at having nothing to do.

Donde se ve claro cuánto ayude la ociosidad al vicio, y cuán de provecho sea la ocupación a la virtud.

It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

"What shall you do all your vacation?" asked Amy. "I shall lie abed and do nothing," replied Meg.

many adults see play as idleness, and idleness as the proverbial "devil's workshop.

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.