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“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...”
“To do great work one must be very idle as well as very industrious.”
“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organi...”
“I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dre...”
“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.”
“Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.”
“Labour-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.”
“A conclusion Ive come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but its really about making work into something that isnt drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become o...”
“Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”
“I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.”
“Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.”
“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
“Its how I fill the time when nothings happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”
“There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a deman...”
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.”
“There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may ta...”
“I didnt want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.”
“My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.”
“I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.”
