Indolence Quotes

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

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

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

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

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

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

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.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

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

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

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

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.

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

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

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

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

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

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

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Comfort and indolence are cronies.