Sigrid Undset Quotes

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

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

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

Habit is a great deadener.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

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

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but [Calvin] Coolidge only snores.

Ignorance is a matter of laziness, indifference, and apathy.

I went through a lazy period.

I'm kind of lethargic in real life.

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

It's really easy to want to just sleep all day.

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Strange enough how creatures of the human-kind shut their eyes to plainest facts; and by the mere inertia of Oblivion and Stupidity, live at ease in the midst of Wonders and Terrors. But indeed man is, and was always, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider. Prejudice, which he pretends to hate, is his absolute lawgiver; mere use-and-wont everywhere leads him by the nose; thus let but a Rising of the Sun, let but a Creation of the World happen twice, and it ceases to be marvellous, to be noteworthy, or noticeable.

One thing I've learnt recently: how to think nothing. Here's the trick: don't have any interest in the world around you, don't have any hope for the future, and be warm.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."