Idleness Quotes

“He is not only idle who does nothing but he is idle who might be better employed.”

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

“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”

“It is no rest to be idle.”

“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.”

“Idleness is the holiday of fools.”

“He is idle that might be better employed.”

“The hardest work is to go idle.”

“The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.”

“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”