Sophia Loren Quotes

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.

I think it must be awful not to work. My only point in being idle is to rest so that I can work more... I'm only unhappy when I'm not working.

We have caused them to be barren and unemployed though each of them had been working and qualified in a trade from which he could make a living.

There was a time when I had no work, and I had to sit at home for 4 years.

Yes, I go a little bit crazy when I'm not working, which is an issue for me. My background is you go to work; that's what you do.

I start to lose my mind if I'm not working on something, like breaking my back on something.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

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

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

I get really weird when I'm not working. I have to keep working.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

The only thing that's a challenge for me is not working. I get depressed when I'm not in motion.

I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

I'm one of those people who, as long as I am still healthy and my thoughts are more or less clear, I don't think I can retire entirely.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

I have younger friends who don't work, and they aren't doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

I'm a writer! If you work in an office, it dampens you. It makes you fit a routine. The effect of being a writer is not dissimilar to being long-term unemployed. And everyone knows that is not good for you.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.