Charlotte Bronte Quotes

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

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.

Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

I don't like idle time.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

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

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

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

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

There is a - deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me.

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

The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

I can't sit around doing nothing. If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

I like being busy.

I'd rather be busy than not.

I don't like not being busy.