Quotes About Lethargy
I get very lazy when I come to Delhi. My visits here are all about sitting and eating and it is very dangerous.
~ Prateik Babbar
BazillionQuotes.com
Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don't be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There's reason behind that idiom. It'll kill you sure enough.
~ Adam Haslett
BazillionQuotes.com
The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep.
~ Susan Orlean
BazillionQuotes.com
I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind.
~ Peter Steele
BazillionQuotes.com
The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest
~ Joseph Conrad
BazillionQuotes.com
Though major depression is often associated with lethargy to the point of being frozen, many people with chronic depression not only work well but devote more energy to their vocation than to any other endeavor.
~ Joshua Wolf Shenk
BazillionQuotes.com
My God, the sense of fatigue…
~ Joyce Carol Oates
BazillionQuotes.com
I can best describe our state as a form of lethargy- an unwillingness to think about what had happened. So we carried on.
~ Daniel Kahneman
BazillionQuotes.com
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy
~ James Madison
BazillionQuotes.com
We had a kind of pity for each other; we were both afflicted permanently with a feeling of sad helplessness because we were unable to make each other happy in this way. But nothing stopped us from choosing other partners. We did not. That I did not, isn't surprising, because of that quality in me I call lethargy, or curiosity, which always keeps me in a situation long after I should leave it.
~ Doris Lessing
BazillionQuotes.com
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory.
~ James Howard Kunstler
BazillionQuotes.com
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
BazillionQuotes.com
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?
~ Ralph Ellison
BazillionQuotes.com
Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.
~ Remy de Gourmont
BazillionQuotes.com
In the heavy air of a morning that foretells a blazing afternoon, these absurdist dreams hover, like the musk of an animal that passed the house before dawn. Lethargy, she thinks.
~ Julia Glass
BazillionQuotes.com
Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.
~ Walter de La Mare
BazillionQuotes.com
Living a healthy lifestyle will only deprive you of poor health, lethargy, and fat.
~ Jill Johnson
BazillionQuotes.com
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
BazillionQuotes.com
The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.
~ James Madison
BazillionQuotes.com
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
~ Woodrow Wilson
BazillionQuotes.com
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
BazillionQuotes.com
Power makes you lazy.
~ David Graeber
BazillionQuotes.com
Governments too steady and uniform, as they are seldom free, so are they, in the judgment of some attended with another sensible inconvenience: they abate the active powers of men; depress courage, invention, and genius; and produce a universal lethary in the people.
~ David Hume
BazillionQuotes.com
I think, Sir, my potential got a hell of a thumping when I happened to be born where I was born with the parents I got'. Your potential boy, is what you achieve regardless of unavoidable disadvantages, what what you can conveniently call upon as an excuse for intellectual lethary, or the lesser, and in most cases forgivable, crime of failure.
~ David Logan
BazillionQuotes.com
