“Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent”
Plato
“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“We grow old more through indolence, than through age”
Christina of Sweden
“The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.”
Soren Kierkegaard
“I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.”
Bern Williams
“It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.”
Jane Austen
“The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.”
John Mason Brown
