Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

If you're bored and you look bored, that's your fault.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort.

"Then idiots talk," said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, "of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy."

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

I am lazy.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

I'm incredibly lazy!

I'm a lazy, lazy girl.

I'm a lazy sod.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.