Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

The devil finds work for idle hands.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

There's not ever much of anything going on in my head.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

I have a mind that always wants to be busy.

Trouble Springs From Idleness.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

That the Devil finds work for idle hands to do is probably true. But there is a profound difference between leisure and idleness.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil.

Shall we keep our hands in our bosom, or stretch ourselves on our beds of laziness, while all the world about us is hard at work, in pursuing the designs of its creation?

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Flee idleness... for no one is more exposed to such temptations than he who has nothing to do.

What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?

I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.

Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.

When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think.