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21 Quotes About Idleness (The Good and the Bad)

  • August 30, 2023
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We’re living fully saturated lives. Our days are jam-packed with appointments and we’re pulled along by an incessant drive toward doing. We’re constantly bombarded by information. Our minds are cluttered with inner dialogue and our rigid schedules leave no room for downtime. It’s as if idleness has become an endangered relic of the past. The following quotes shed light on this phenomenon and present conflicting views on idleness.

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Quotes About Idleness Being Positive

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

Floyd Dell

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Franz Kafka

What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.

Nassim Taleb

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

Oscar Wilde
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Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.

Albert Camus

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

George MacDonald

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf
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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Søren Kierkegaard

Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure.

Tom Hodgkinson

Quotes About Idleness Being Negative

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Philip Stanhope

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Hosea Ballou

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.

John Quincy Adams

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Henry Ford

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Victor Hugo

Success operates in active moments and not in idleness.

Oscar Bimpong

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

Jean Paul

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all Virtues.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil’s home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Anne Baxter

Which camp are you in? Have any other quotes about idleness you’d add to the list? Let me know in the comments.

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