| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 035cb9d | Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream. | dreams education intelligence choke lethargy palahniuk sloth | Chuck Palahniuk | |
| c3d9329 | She felt all right. Her heart was like a drum hanging from piano wire in her chest, slowly, slowly beaten. Her hands and feet were numb, not with cold but with a sultry torpor. Thoughts moved with a tranquil lethargy, her brain a leisurely machine imbedded in swaths of woolly packing. She felt all right. | lethargy torpor tranquilization tranquility | Richard Matheson | |
| 96fec76 | To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so | lethargy-and-indolence the-corrections lethargy | Jonathan Franzen |