Idleness Quotes

It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense.

Anton Chekhov

A person cries out from pain when he takes up hard physical work after a period of idleness. Any rest from the struggle for spiritual improvement brings the same pain.

Leo Tolstoy

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo

(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.

Christopher Hitchens

Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

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.

Albert Camus

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments

Benjamin Franklin

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Benjamin Franklin

Idleness and Pride Tax with a heavier Hand than Kings and Parliaments; If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the Latter.

Benjamin Franklin

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible

Mahatma Gandhi

In idleness there is a perpetual despair

Thomas Carlyle