Indolence Quotations

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

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

Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.

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

A philosopher is there to disturb the indolence of the mind

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

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

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

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

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.

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

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

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

I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.