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#idleness

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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.


Michel de Montaigne


#idle-minds #idleness #suspicion #business

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.


Vladimir Nabokov


#dreams #expectancy #hope #idleness #life

Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.


Émile Zola


#idleness #zola #life

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.


Lydia Davis


#depression #idleness #self-sabotage #terror #writer-s-block

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.


Karen Allen


#anything #bad #been #crazy #does

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


Tom Hodgkinson


#idleness #art

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.


Benjamin Jowett


#achieved #any #excuse #idleness #mere

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.


Miguel de Cervantes


#best #brought #diligence #fortune #goal

Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like Pasha, to be still fond of me and to respect me. My God, how I despise myself! I so deeply loathe my voice, my walk, my hands, these clothes, my thoughts. Well, isn't that funny, isn't that shocking? Less than a year ago I was healthy and strong, I was cheerful, tireless, passionate, I worked with these very hands, I could speak to move even Philistines to tears, I could cry when I saw grief, I became indignant when I encountered evil. I knew inspiration, I knew the charm and poetry of quiet nights when from dusk to dawn you sit at your desk or indulge you mind with dreams. I believed, I looked into the future as into the eyes of my own mother... And now, my God, I am exhausted, I do not believe, I spend my days and nights in idleness.


Anton Chekhov


#idleness #pathetic #dreams

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.


Ezra Cornell


#human mind #idleness #iron #like #mind






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