Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it) does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Sometimes, when you're really depressed, all you want to do is nothing. All you want to do is lean your head on your arm, and stare into space. Sometimes this can go on for hours. If you're unusually depressed, you may have to change arms.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

There is one weakness in people for which there is no remedy. It is the universal weakness of LACK OF AMBITION!

The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

I just don't see anybody that's particularly interested in fixing that.

Making no decision is a decision. To do nothing. And doing nothing always brings you to nowhere.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

They weren't moving. Perhaps I was dazzling then with my ineptitude. It had happened before.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is