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I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements. By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Chastisements Reason Idleness Popular Young

Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. By Charles Caleb Colton Pacific Ocean Life Good Evil

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever By Edmund Burke Idleness Observed Fills Master Whatsoever

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness By Sunday Adelaja Joblessness Idleness Necessarily

I think of myself as naturally idle. The trouble is, the 'nothing' that I do every day is not really nothing. I potter. I muck about with emails, I make coffee, I fiddle with my computer to make sure that the book I haven't started writing is perfectly synced across all platforms and devices. By Robert Webb Idle Naturally Make Trouble Day

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. By Franz Kafka Idleness Vice Virtues Beginning Crown

Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. By Albert Camus Idleness Mediocre Fatal

Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself. By Robert Louis Stevenson Idleness Called Class Consist Great

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat. By Samora Machel Idleness Relaxation Sooner Corruption Accompanied

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. By Thomas Jefferson Idleness Hypochondriac Body Ennui Begets

An idle life always produces varied inclinations. By Lucan Inclinations Idle Life Produces Varied

Sluggish idlenessthe nurse of sin. By Edmund Spenser Sluggish Sin Idlenessthe Nurse

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table. By F Scott Fitzgerald Planned Plead Table Idlers Special

Boredom, that traitorous devil that posseses us to do things sometimes useless, and often stupid. By Apol Lejano-Massebieau Boredom Useless Stupid Traitorous Devil

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. By Victor Hugo Idleness Oppressions Heaviest

The cause of laziness is physiological; it is an infirmity of the constitution, and its victim is as much to be pitied as a sufferer from any other constitutional infirmity. It is even worse than many other diseases; from them the patient may recover, while this is incurable. By Christian Nestell Bovee Infirmity Physiological Constitution Laziness Victim

And what is boredom? Perhaps the inability to find meaning, to complete a perception, to arrive at an understanding: partly grasped, but forever just out of reach. It is not lack of interest, but interest frustrated, cut off, imperfectly held. So says the Chronicle today. But for me it is the fear of emptiness. By Kate Millett Boredom Interest Meaning Perception Understanding

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief. By Francis M. Lyman Idleness Mischief Degenerating Dangerous Brain

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. By Jerome K. Jerome Idleness Kisses Stolen Sweet

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on. By Stephen Nachmanovitch Fidgeting Emptiness Boredom Symptoms Fear

I am capable of being idle. By Alexander Mccall Smith Idle Capable

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. By Cyril Connolly Idleness Present Coarse Infinite Capacity

Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace. By Mary Balogh Despised Idleness Knew Peace Touched

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. By Robert South Impossibilities Idleness Creates People Care

A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind. By John Dryden Frost Mind Lazy Numbness

Laziness and complacency. By Lee Child Laziness Complacency

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. By William Cowper Mind Absence Rest Distressed Occupation

A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind. By Rebecca Solnit Medium Restlessness Seized Hold Sense

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. By Samuel Johnson Gloomy Vacancy Calm Idle

procrastination, By George S. Clason Procrastination

The idle always have a mind to do something. By Luc De Clapiers Idle Mind

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man. By J.g. Holland Idleness Man Sepulchre Living

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed. By Socrates Employed Idle

When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence. By Ingmar Bergman Unmotivated Whatsoever Unworthy Feel Perpetually

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. By Saul Bellow Boredom Change Conviction Capacities Shriek

Idleness is the parent of psychology. By Friedrich Nietzsche Idleness Psychology Parent

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. By George Borrow Idleness Mischief True Parent Attempt

TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens. By Ambrose Bierce Tedium Ennui Laudamus Father Jape

An idle life cannot be pure. By Anton Chekhov Pure Idle Life

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour. By Samuel Johnson Idleness Hurry Covered Turbulence Folly

Envy, the attendant of the empty mind. By Pindar Envy Mind Attendant Empty

As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. By Bram Stoker Painted Ocean Idle Ship

Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Faults Idleness Utterly Functions Avow

Idleness ruins the constitution By Ovid Idleness Constitution Ruins

We simply do not value rest. Busyness is lauded, and idleness is of the Devil. By Andrew Gilmore Rest Devil Simply Busyness Lauded

Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. By Laini Taylor Boredom Soulless Terrible Affliction

No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? By William Wilberforce Idle Man Health Leisure Instruct

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed. By Socrates Idle Employed

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle. By Gilbert K. Chesterton Epoch Bustle Customary Complain Strenuousness

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. By Samuel Johnson Tranquility Doom Laziness Gluttony Inactive

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Boredom Interest Neglect Duties

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. By Wayne Dyer Concept Boredom Entails Inability Present

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. By Dylan Thomas Boredom Seeks Rest Finds Work

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking. By Robert Mckee Boredom Desire Lacking Conflict Suffer

I became bored - that was all. Boredom, which is another name and a frequent disguise for vitality, became the unconscious motive of all my acts. By F Scott Fitzgerald Bored Boredom Vitality Acts Frequent

One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself. By J.g. Ballard Oneself Great Deal Idle Time

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. By Cesare Pavese Idleness Swiftly Makes Hours Years

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. By Renata Adler People Bored Idle Lot Cruel

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. By John Lubbock Rest Idle Man Enjoy Earned

Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown. By Eric Maisel Boredom Meaning Tides Drown Thing

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now. By Anthony Burgess Wedged Idleness Eternities Excuse Idle

Boredom is merely a symptom of an apathetic soul. By Tim Boredom Soul Symptom Apathetic

Rather do what is nothing to the purpose than be idle; that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot, when fliers scape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and the self-made sepulchre of a living man. By Francis Quarles Idle Purpose Devil Find Thee

Idleness breeds our better virtues. By William Faulkner Idleness Virtues Breeds

What are the politics of boredom? By Malcolm Mclaren Boredom Politics

Boredom: the desire for desires. By Leo Tolstoy Boredom Desire Desires

Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character. By James Bridie Boredom Ignorance Blunted Apprehension Crass

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. By Mahatma Gandhi Purity Incompatible Mind Idleness

Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something. By Mortimer Adler Idling Important People Newspaper Afraid

There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility. By H.l. Mencken Offering Worse Idle Occupation People

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life. By Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Life Inexorable Boredom Core

Boredom is your soul's way of telling you to step up and do what you were born to. By Miya Yamanouchi Boredom Soul Telling Step Born

Boredom is restlessness of the soul. It is an internal message reminding you that you're better than the stagnancy you've settled for. By Steve Maraboli Boredom Soul Restlessness Internal Message

Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. By Russell Lynes Wasting Negative Idleness Time Positive

Boredom ... what is this foreign word you speak of, General? I fear I know nothing of it. Ash By Sherrilyn Kenyon Boredom General Ash Foreign Word

We know what boredom is: it is a dullImpatience or a fierce velleity,A champing wish, stalled by our lassitude,To make or do. In the strict sense, of course,We invent nothing, merely bearing witnessTo what each morning brings again to light By Richard Wilbur Stalled Boredom Dullimpatience Fierce Velleitya

Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a person should never rest because of a laziness which arises from the evil nature in his emotion. How often laziness and emotional distaste for work join to employ physical fatigue as a cover-up. By Watchman Nee Frequently Laziness Rest Spirit Emotion

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds. By Rebecca Stead Boredom Minds People Control

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. By Kahlil Gibran Seasons Infinite Idle Stranger Step

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. By Blaise Pascal Rest Passion Business Entertainment Care

The Bible legend tells us that the absence of toil - idleness - was a condition of the first man's state of bliss before the Fall. This love of idleness has remained the same in the fallen man, but the curse still lies heavy on the human race ... because our moral nature is such that we are unable to be idle and at peace. p 590 By Leo Tolstoy Fall Bible Idleness Man Toil

The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness. By Irwin Edman Idleness Outlook Country Lies Quality

Now the code of life of the High Middle Ages said something entirely opposite to this: that it was precisely lack of leisure, an inability to be at leisure, that went together with idleness; that the restlessness of work-for-work's sake arose from nothing other than idleness. There is a curious connection in the fact that the restlessness of a self-destructive work-fanatacism should take its rise from the absence of a will to accomplish something. By Josef Pieper Leisure Idleness High Middle Ages

My boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitalityjust as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust. By Alberto Moravia Process Dust Boredom Malady Affecting

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. By Jerome K. Jerome Impossible Enjoy Idling Plenty Work

such a state of obligatory and irreproachable idleness is the lot of a whole class - the military. By Leo Tolstoy Class Military State Obligatory Irreproachable

Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a plague, a hell itself. By Samuel Smiles Wit Idleness Body Employment Disease

What has not wasting time impaired? By Horace Impaired Wasting Time

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential. By Hal Sparks Boredom Potential Mind Body Telling

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind. By Leonardo Da Vinci Inaction Mind Saps Vigor

In this day and age, there is a limitless plethora of readily available distractions just waiting to take your mind off what you were supposed to be doing, and instead keep you unproductive and unmotivated. With distractions so easy to come by, and society so geared towards instant gratification as opposed to "Hard graft" for results, it is little wonder that many people suffer from a condition most commonly referred to as laziness. By James Frankton Age Unmotivated Distractions Day Limitless

When there's nothing to do, you do nothing slowly and intently. By Haruki Murakami Intently Slowly

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers. By Erich Fromm Boredom Powers Experience Paralysis Productive

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. By Thomas Carlyle Ninetenths Idleness Miseries Vices Mankind

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there." By Jim Gaffigan Find Lazy Reason Letter Mail

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it. By J. Reuben Clark Curse Idleness Equal Man Group

Concentration Attention Multitasking Boredom Procrastination By Sharon Salzberg Procrastination Attention Multitasking Boredom Concentration

And what is the most terrible thing about boredom? Why do we rush to dispel it? Because it is a distraction-free state which soon enough reveals underlying unpalatable truths about existence - our insignificance, our meaningless existence, our inexorable progression to deterioration and death. By Irvin D. Yalom Boredom Terrible Thing Existence Insignificance

There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. By Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2Nd Baronet Heavier Misspent Idleness Guess Remedy

That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing. By Pliny The Younger Indolent Agreeable Condition