Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things, work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

I work for wardrobe. Whenever I need clothes, I take a job. If I get maybe like six changes, then I'll be a grandmother, I don't care.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

I don't believe I want to retire, because I just enjoy and love my work so much.

I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

I'm always happy for a job. It's all fun.

If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.

I've spoken to people who have retired once they lost the enjoyment of a long day in the field or going to the gym. If I lose that, it's time to go.

Working, for me, is like a gift.

I'd rather work than not work.

I'd never worked for anyone else until I got to the NFL, and this will be my last time working for someone else.

Nearly all of us work, a lot: many people spend more waking hours working than doing all other things combined. And nearly all of us spend our lifetimes working for someone other than ourselves.

Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.

Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.