Indolence Quotes
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The sluggard is a living insensible.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
— Tom Stoppard
We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
— Christina, Queen Of Sweden
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
— Lord Chesterfield
The last shall not become the first if the last is lagging behind.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
— John Ruskin
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
— Theodore L. Cuyler
Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.
— Cato The Younger
Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.
— Robert Pollok
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
— Luc De Clapiers
Comfort and indolence are cronies.
— Thomas Hood
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
— John Keats
What is public opinion? It is private indolence.
— Georg Brandes
Long periods of languor, indolence and staring at the ceiling are needed by any creative person in order to develop ideas.
— Tom Hodgkinson
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
— Bernard Williams
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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.
— Herman Melville
A useless life is an early death.[Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Miracle centered gospel brings about the culture of indolence and insolence upon the country.
— Sunday Adelaja
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.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
— Seneca The Younger
Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.
— Laurie R. King
Meekness does not mean indolence.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
— John Osborne
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
— Edward Gibbon
Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.
— Benjamin Haydon
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
— Edward Abbey
Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
— Robert A. Burton
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
— John Mason Brown
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.
— William Shenstone
To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.
— Fanny Lewald
Indolence had a great part in his temperament; a book, a sunny corner, and entire tranquillity, formed his ideal of supportable existence.
— George Gissing
The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence,
— Jon Meacham
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.
— Maria Edgeworth
Indolence is the devil's cushion.
— Samuel Johnson
Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses; they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence.
— M.F. Moonzajer
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.
— Jean Cocteau
Any church that is overly emphasizing the role of miracles is encouraging his members to be indolent.
— Sunday Adelaja
We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.
— Toni Morrison
You will sustain your rage, using time as a defense against fear and indolence. In the great stash of defenses, time is the one least imaginative.
— Marlena De Blasi
Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
— Antoine Rivarol
abundance proffered too soon led to lassitude and indolence, a wandering dissatisfaction.
— Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
