Indolence Quotes

Indolence Quote of the day

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

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

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

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

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

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

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.

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.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.