Quotes About Indolence

Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

This morning I was so rash as to read some of the public newspapers; suddenly an indolence of the weight of twenty atmospheres fell upon me, and I was stopped, faced by the appalling uselessness of explaining anything whatever to anyone whatever. Those who know can divine me, and for those who can not or will not understand, it would be fruitless to pile up explanations.

his temper was so impetuous, his indolence so invincible, and his vicious habits so deeply rooted, that he made no progress.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Wealth ... and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and vicious-ness, and both of discontent.

Sloth is the mother of poverty.

An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.

The lazy man aims at nothing, and generally hits it.

And although it appears that the World has become effeminate and Heaven disarmed, yet this arises without doubt more from the baseness of men who have interpreted our Religion in accordance with Indolence and not in accordance with Virtu. For if they were to consider that it (our Religion) permits the exaltation and defense of the country, they would see that it desires that we love and honor her (our country), and that we prepare ourselves so that we can be able to defend her.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

If they have a dull wit, let them not reproach the poets for their indolence, nor insist against them with frivolous barks.

Achievement, of whatever kind, is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends; by the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confusion of thought a man descends.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

TO-MORROW. The only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

Laziness always wins.