Idleness

Indolence, laziness, sloth, apathy, languor, lethargy, lassitude

QUOTES

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Lord Chesterfield
Letters to his Son, 1749

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
1779

Life is a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves.
Frederich Nietzsche

See Also Work

History

The starving time in Jamestown 1610-1612

Foot-binding in China

Arts & Science

Movies: Easy Rider

Literature

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

Pearl Buck: The Good Earth

Anton Chekhov: Uncle Vanya

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa

Carlo Levi: Christ Stopped at Eboli

Aesop: The Grasshopper and the Ants

Thomas More: Utopia

Cynthia Voigt: On Fortune's Wheel

Samuel Becket: Waiting for Godot

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