Quotes About Lethargy

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

I want to sleep all day and night (i.e., not live but not quite die) …

Grounding is not dull and lifeless, but dynamic and vibrant. Generally it is our tension that makes us lethargic, and tension results from alienation between various parts of ourselves. As these parts are simplified and integrated, we experience increased vitality.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

My boredom with everything has numbed me.

It's like being intoxicated with inertia, drunk but with no enjoyment in the drinking or in the drunkenness.

a tedium of feeling anything at all ...

Should they remain on the drugs for years, they are at high risk of becoming chronically depressed. They may also develop—as the American Psychiatric Association warns in one of its textbooks—an "apathy syndrome," which "is characterized by a loss of motivation, increased passivity, and often feelings of lethargy and 'flatness.

I don't feel like doing anything. I don't feel like riding the motion is too powerful; I don't feel like walking-it is too tiring; I don't feel like lying down, for either I would have to stay down, and I don't feel like doing that, or I would have to get up again, and I don't feel like doing that, either. Summa Summarum: I don't feel like doing anything.

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

He had reached a dead end. He had been content to drift from moment to moment of existence for thirty years like some heavily armored creature, sluggish and indifferent.

Erik was always amazed how exhausting it was to sit on your ass and not move.

Misunderstandings and lethargy perhaps produce more wrong in the world than deceit and malice do.

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.

The pew is perhaps the greatest inhibitor of face-to-face fellowship. It is a symbol of lethargy and passivity in the contemporary church and has made corporate worship a spectator sport.

There are two cardinal human sins from which all others derive: impatience and indolence.

Hot, dry katabatic winds, like the south foehn in Europe, the sharav in the Middle East, and the Santa Ana of Southern California, are all believed to have a decided effect on human behavior and are associated with such health problems as migraines, depression, lethargy, and moodiness. Some scientists say that this is a myth.

A wise traveler reaches his goal and rests," he continues. "The wanderer never reaches it, but with great lethargy of mind forever directs his hungry eyes before him.

The sunlight bores the daylights out of me

A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.

Acetaldehyde also depletes niacin, or vitamin B3, which your cells need to burn fat and sugar for energy—and when your cells can't burn fat stores, you gain weight and feel lethargic. Niacin also plays an important role in the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that affects mood and sleep, as well as the production of a coenzyme

Ellis had slept through the entire thing. That, or he was dead, but I saw no reason to check. If he was dead, he'd still be dead in the morning.