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


Abu Bakr


#breaths #indolence #life #loan #manifest

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


Bern Williams


#i #indolence #laziness #like #makes

I was young at Myna, that first time. When had the change come? He had retreated to here, to Collegium, to spin his awkward webs of intrigue and to lecture at the College. Then, years on, the call had come for action. He had gone to that chest in which he stored his youth and found that, like some armour long unworn, it had rusted away. He tried to tell himself that this was not like the grumbling of any other man who finds the prime of his life behind him. I need my youth and strength now, as never before. A shame that one could no husband time until one needed it. All his thoughts rang hollow. He was past his best and that was the thorn that would not be plucked from his side. He was no different from any tradesman or scholar who, during a life of indolence, pauses partway up the stairs to think, This was not so hard, yesterday.


Adrian Tchaikovsky


#aging #collegium #indolence #lost-youth #stenwold-maker

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


John Mason Brown


#critic #indolence #man #opinion #prefers

The town of L— represented the earth, with its sorrows and its graves left behind, yet not out of sight, nor wholly forgotten. The ocean, in everlasting but gentle agitation, and brooded over by a dove-like calm, might not unfitly typify the mind and the mood which then swayed it. For it seemed to me as if then first I stood at a distance, and aloof from the uproar of life; as if the tumult, the fever, and the strife, were suspended; a respite granted from the secret burthens of the heart; a sabbath of repose; a resting from human labours. Here were the hopes which blossom in the paths of life, reconciled with the peace which is in the grave; motions of the intellect as unwearied as the heavens, yet for all anxieties a halcyon calm: a tranquility that seemed no product of inertia, but as if resulting from mighty and equal antagonisms; infinite activities, infinite repose.


Thomas de Quincey


#reconciliation-of-opposites #equality

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.


Benjamin Franklin


#enjoy-life #indolence #live-in-the-moment #life

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


Abu Bakr


#breaths #indolence #life #loan #manifest

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves


C.G. Jung


#indolence #object-of-desire #love

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.


Thomas Chandler Haliburton


#contentment #indolence #refined #simply

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


#brute #destroyed #effectually #i #indolence






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