indolence

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noun

The quality or state of being lazy: idleness, laziness, shiftlessness, sloth, slothfulness, sluggardness, sluggishness. Informal do-nothingism. See industrious/lazy.

Quotes:

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

"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it." - Joseph Conrad

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame." - Mahatma Gandhi

"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." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men." - Wyndham Lewis