Henryk Sienkiewicz Quotes

Lazy people always intend to start doing something.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

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.

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

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

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

Idleness ruins the constitution

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic!

I've seen guys sit the whole day doing nothing, and I hate it when people are unproductive. I don't like a guy who sits on the couch all day.

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

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

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

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

If you don't have to get out of bed and do something every morning, that's kind of a curse.

The lazy are always wanting to do something.

Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.

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.

One musts avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

The sluggard is a living insensible.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.