Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

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

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

I know how deeply slothful I am.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

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

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

Deep down inside, I am lazy.

I'm just generally lazy.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

I can get lazy. I don't think I'm a very driven person. When I have work, I work very hard. But when I don't work, I really don't do anything. I could easily just fade away.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

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

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

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.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

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

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!