#idleness

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

#idleness #mind #stupidity

I wonder at the idleness of tears. ↗

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

#i wonder #idleness #tears #wonder

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#cannot #care #creates #done #idleness

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#crown #idleness #vice #virtues

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#children #death #fear #friends #idleness

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#devil #distracting #duty #home #idleness

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#idleness #inspirational #humor

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#time #wasting-time #nothing

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#idleness #labor #writing #yet