Sedentary Life Quotes

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

I didn't want to spend my life behind a desk.

Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.

I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.

I spent my childhood eating. The only exercise I got was trying to twist off the cap of a jar of mayonnaise.

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood.

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

I get antsy and annoyed if I am sedentary too long.

The slow rhythm of the body, the insistent rhythm of the wit, were they becoming irreconcilable in modern civilisation? The sedentary life, frustration and irritability; work with the body, fatigue - and peace of mind.

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.