Quotes About Lethargy

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

A bone-deep weariness gripped the assassin

Indolence takes many forms, but it comes to every civilization that has outlived its will.

It's my husband. I think— I think he's a zombie." I smiled. "Believe it or not, I get this one a lot. Can you describe his behavior? Why do you think he's a zombie?" She huffed. "He doesn't do anything! He sits on the sofa all day watching TV and that's it.

It was almost three o'clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night.

He was like one who had half fainted, and could neither recover nor complete the swoon.

On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more deeply, consumes more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, overrefinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.

On a personal level, too, art is life intensified: it delights more rapidly; it engraves the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventure on the countenance of its servant and in the long run, for all the monastic calm of his external existence, leads to self-indulgence, over refinement, lethargy, and a restless curiosity that a lifetime of wild passions and pleasures could scarcely engender.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

the Ennui predator.

Every so often something came to life inside her, rebelled, demanded noise, movement, people. Life, my God, life! How long would this war go on? How many years would they have to live like this, in this dismal lethargy, bowed, docile, crushed like cattle in a storm?

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Boredom is a sickness of the soul.

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

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.

Cuando me despierto del todo.. me pesa todo el cuerpo, como si me corriese plomo líquido por las venas.

I'm so tired, Katniss.

For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

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.

Have you ever just laid in bed unable to dredge up the will to get out of it?

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.