#idle

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My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping.


Kate Christensen


#kate-christensen #marriage #midle-age #poets #the-astral

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.


Kami Garcia


#beautiful-darkness #eathan-wate #john #kami-garcia #lena

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.


Vladimir Nabokov


#dreams #expectancy #hope #idleness #life

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.


Iain Pears


#laziness #occupation #occupied-france #politics #war

Blue believes the harmony to be motivated by self-interest. There is a resurgence of faith these days, a growing belief in organized religion, grace, damnation, heaven and hell. People treat each other kindly now, thinks Blue, because they hope to escape God's wrath. Blue does not believe in damnation and has trouble empathizing with those who do. In her fifty-two years, she has found no hard evidence, no scientific proof to convince her of God's existence. She considers herself an atheist.


Nick Sagan


#faith

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.


Samuel Johnson


#life #solitude #life

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.


Émile Zola


#idleness #zola #life

Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for.  There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!


Charles Dickens


#despair #gridley #miss-flite #richard #tie

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.


Lydia Davis


#depression #idleness #self-sabotage #terror #writer-s-block

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.


Karen Allen


#anything #bad #been #crazy #does