Samuel Beckett Quotes

Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.

I want to sit on my couch and drink and not change my pants for days at a time.

I'm quite lazy.

I like doing nothing, actually. Doing nothing is better thing when I am not working.

I am lazy.

I enjoy doing nothing.

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

I love doing just nothing in my free time.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

I went through a lazy period.

I am a very lazy person.

I'm just generally lazy.

Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

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

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.

You want useless, you have come to the right guy. I can be useless for hours at a time. Weeks even. I'm currently closing in on a month of being totally useless, which is by way of being a personal best.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

By nature, I suppose I have a languorous disposition

It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

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

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.