Quotes About Idleness

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.

Idleness - a job that you have to go to, but not necessarily do anything - is the poet's friend.

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

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.

It's strange having nothing to do expect be waited on.

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves.

The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston...

Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.

Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again, idly, aimlessly, unthinking and unguided.

Among monks generally there was a long-standing movement for reform of old institutions that had slipped into idleness and self-indulgence.

Prefieren un régimen de inactividad y una

I cannot suppose there is anybody here who would think it either a good life, or an amusing one, to sit with one's hands before one doing nothing - to live like a gentleman, as fools call it.

Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

meine tätigen Kräfte sind zu einer unruhigen Lässigkeit verstimmt, ich kann nicht müßig sein und kann doch auch nichts tun. Ich habe keine Vorstellungskraft, kein Gefühl an der Natur, und die Bücher ekeln mich an. Wenn wir uns selbst fehlen, fehlt uns doch alles. Ich schwöre dir, manchmal wünschte ich, ein Tagelöhner zu sein, um nur des Morgens beim Erwachen eine Aussicht auf den künftigen Tag, einen Drang, eine Hoffnung zu haben.

Idleness and idolatry aren't related but they ought to be.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

Kissel worked in Idleness the way other artists worked in clay or marble.

Il bel far niente.

Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything

Elizabeth Gilbert

I have a peculiar capacity for doing nothing and yet enjoying myself.

Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then imagine how much worse it is for us.