Quotes on Laziness

The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising our memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

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

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.