Idleness Quotes - Page 2

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

Michael Bassey Johnson

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive and productive industry. Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly

Henry David Thoreau

I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.

Bertrand Russell

To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.

I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. Whether our actions themselves, even if they do not take place until later, are nothing more than the last reverberations of a vast movement that occurs within us during idle days.In any case, it is very important to be idle with confidence, with devotion, possibly even with joy. The days when even our hands do not stir are so exceptionally quiet that it is hardly possible to raise them without hearing a whole lot.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

Benedict of Nursia

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

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

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree

Michael Bassey Johnson

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

Is idleness indeed so black a crime?What are the Busy doing, half their time?

William Allingham

Joblessness does not necessarily mean idleness

Is idleness indeed so black a crime?What are the Busy doing, half their time?

William Allingham

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.

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

Lawrence Durrell

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.

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

ur 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.