Thomas a Kempis Quotes

Humanity is constitutionally lazy.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up.

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.

I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert.

The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.

Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

Habit is a great deadener.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

When I don't feel like working, I don't.

I'm just generally lazy.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.