Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

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

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

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.

This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

I get very antsy when I'm not occupied.

Whenever Rod has four of five days off, he'll be bouncing off the walls with boredom.

I've always liked being busy. If I have nothing to do for a week, it just makes me mad.

I'm not a patient person and sitting around the house waiting to get back to WWE does me no good.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

I'm terrible when I have to fill up free time. My days, if I'm not working, I wake up and figure out a way to kill time until it's time to go to sleep.

I hate getting bored.

When I'm not creating something, I get bored; I despair.