Quotes: Indolence

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.