Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Work is a dull thing; you cannot get away from that. The only agreeable existence is one of idleness, and that is not, unfortunately, always compatible with continuing to exist at all.

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

Play is just another version of work

To work is to feel alive.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

Am I a slacker? I can be a slacker. When I was in college, most people got summer jobs for college or did research during college. I went home and watched TV the whole day for three months; it was really awesome.

My agent, Jeff Andrews, suggested I write a book. For some reason. he doesn't like it when I'm not doing anything.

As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.