Idleness Quotes

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous.

True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work!

It is no rest to be idle.

I didn’t want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris into a bottle.

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

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

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

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

Idleness is the holiday of fools.

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

Did nothing in particular and did it very well.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

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

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.