idleness

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
67d0083	People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.	humor inspirational idleness	A.A. Milne
8e03dc2	" "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."	laughter doubt sorrow friends hope life love wisdom idleness foes inventory contentment sufficienty superfluity unattainable envy curiosity knowledge values	Dorothy Parker
674d159	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.	time nature beauty science inspirational clouds grass rest idleness trees sky water summer	John Lubbock
659a9e1	He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.	time retirement idleness	Albert Camus
be50ae9	The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.	idleness	Tom Hodgkinson
a056d92	Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.	c-g-jung carl-gustav-jung carl-jung collected-works archetypes idleness	C.G. Jung
28b7029	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.	boredom-to-brilliance recklessness idleness curiosity	Toni Morrison
fd0661d	(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.	sex friends fear death proust-questionnaire impotence mothers idleness proust misery children	Christopher Hitchens
b15e6b3	Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.	idleness	Tom Hodgkinson
d95e02b	Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing--(how am I to put it?)--which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.	idleness consequences	E.M. Forster
330e88d	The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.	dreams hope life expectancy idleness repetition	Vladimir Nabokov
ab9752c	When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.	work contrary rush idleness	Geoff Dyer
2cc8827	Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.	idleness eternity	Anthony Burgess
06c2c2a	My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.	depression motivation philosophy idleness despair	Geoff Dyer
8857847	Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.	want policemen jail idleness misery	Richard Llewellyn
ca777ae	Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.	understanding kids youth philosophy wisdom abandonement adult-subjects condescension good-time thumbs incapable subjects away idleness understand experience children condescending eyes	V.C. Andrews

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

A.A. Milne

8e03dc2

" "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye."

laughter doubt sorrow friends hope life love wisdom idleness foes inventory contentment sufficienty superfluity unattainable envy curiosity knowledge values

Dorothy Parker

674d159

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.

time nature beauty science inspirational clouds grass rest idleness trees sky water summer

John Lubbock

659a9e1

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

time retirement idleness

Albert Camus

be50ae9

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

idleness

Tom Hodgkinson

a056d92

Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.

c-g-jung carl-gustav-jung carl-jung collected-works archetypes idleness

C.G. Jung

28b7029

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.

boredom-to-brilliance recklessness idleness curiosity

Toni Morrison

fd0661d

(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.

sex friends fear death proust-questionnaire impotence mothers idleness proust misery children

Christopher Hitchens

b15e6b3

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

idleness

Tom Hodgkinson

d95e02b

Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing--(how am I to put it?)--which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.

idleness consequences

E.M. Forster

330e88d

The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

dreams hope life expectancy idleness repetition

Vladimir Nabokov

ab9752c

When I'm working I'm wishing I was doing nothing and when I'm doing nothing I'm wondering if I should be working. I hurry through what I've got to do and then, when I've got nothing to do, I keep glancing at the clock, wishing it was time to go out. Then, when I'm out, I'm wondering how long it will be before I'm back home.

work contrary rush idleness

Geoff Dyer

2cc8827

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

idleness eternity

Anthony Burgess

06c2c2a

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do have a strong urge: to do nothing. To down tools, to stop. Except I know that if I do that I will fall into despair, and I know that it is worth doing anything in one's power to avoid depression because from there, from being depressed, it is only an imperceptible step to despair: the last refuge of the ego.

depression motivation philosophy idleness despair

Geoff Dyer

8857847

Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.

want policemen jail idleness misery

Richard Llewellyn

ca777ae

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.

understanding kids youth philosophy wisdom abandonement adult-subjects condescension good-time thumbs incapable subjects away idleness understand experience children condescending eyes

V.C. Andrews