Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing—(how am I to put it?)—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.
E.M. ForsterMots clés attitude consequences idleness
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Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored....
Søren KierkegaardMots clés idleness
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
Albert CamusMots clés inaction idleness mediocrity
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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill WattersonMots clés time idleness wasting-time
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.
John LubbockMots clés science inspirational beauty nature time water trees sky idleness summer clouds grass rest
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[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George BorrowIdleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.
Tom HodgkinsonLabour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.
Tom HodgkinsonExtreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis StevensonA conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
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