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Quotes About Lethargy

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
~ John Berger
Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.
~ Aretaeus
I'm cummin' round more'n'more to Your earliest=Levanthine pointa view, Dan, >that the world may well have originated less from a creative and far more from a destructive principle< ... - : aren't we ruled=t'day by a wind that produces great lethargy (&thirst)?...<
~ Arno Schmidt
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
~ Arthur Adamov
In due course, life returned to normal, as it always does in India, post earthquakes, cyclones, riots, epidemics and cricket controversies. Apathy, or lethargy, or a combination of the two, soon casts a spell over everything and the most traumatic events are quickly forgotten.
~ Ruskin Bond
Apathy, or lethargy, or a combination of the two, soon casts a spell over everything and the most traumatic events are quickly forgotten.
~ Ruskin Bond
bana öyle geliyor ki, hakikaten yapabilece?imiz bir tek i? vard?r, o da ölmek. bak, bunu yapabiliriz ve ancak bu takdirde irademizi tam bir ?ey yapmakta kullanm?? oluruz. ben ne diye bu i?i yapm?yorum diyeceksin! demin söyledim ya, müthi? bir gev?eklik içindeyim. ü?eniyorum.
~ Sabahattin Ali
Languor is a more efficient method of control.
~ Margaret Atwood
Insanity is coasting through life.
~ Morgan Freeman
It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.
~ John Green
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness painsMy sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,Or emptied some dull opiate to the drainsOne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk.
~ John Keats
It's all right, darling. I can't stand people who are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at seven in the morning. Give me a girl who only gets going after ten!
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
It was so hot we spent our waking hours dozing and our sleeping hours lying awake, trying to sleep.
~ Geoff Dyer
For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.
~ George Eliot
I don't like to work out, and I get bored easily.
~ Janet Jackson
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
~ Samuel Foote
Boredom and booze--cause and effect.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Every time she considered getting up and doing something, her limbs wouldn't move.
~ Sara Shepard
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
~ Margaret Halsey
I'm not sure about whether I shall go. I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather--that is, when the fit is on me, for I can be spry enough at times.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It was as though peace were a lethargy, a miasma that filled mankind with a sense of ennui, and it was only war that could stimulate man to the full exhilaration of life.
~ Sidney Sheldon
After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.
~ Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
Nobody thinks, nobody cares. No beliefs, no convictions and no enthusiasm. Just another Sunday evening.
~ John Osborne
Mrs. Bostwick's face was heavy and lethargic, without any strength or delicacy, and it bore the deep marks of what must have been a habitual dissatisfaction.
~ John Williams