Top 127 Indolence Quotes & Sayings

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

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

There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.

In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Inspiration arrived as a result of profound indolence... I awoke with a start and witnessed as from a seat in a theatre, three acts of a potentially awesome play.

Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.

Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.

They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams.

Enjoyment stops where indolence begins.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

To will the impossible is usually a sin of indolence.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

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

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Bountiful as is the hand of Providence, its gifts are not so bestowed as to seduce us into indolence, but to rouse us to exertion.

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

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.