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The soul is the weariest part of the body.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?
I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me for the day. I was resigned to see the Young Person, but I was NOT resigned to let the Young Person's shoes upset me. There is a limit even to my endurance.
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes,
my rage, forgetting everything,
I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic
shops,
and courtyards with washing hanging from the line:
underwear, towels and shirts from which slow
dirty tears are falling.
Everything in this word exists to wear you down.
How undisturbed, the sleep of the foolish.
The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
Comfortable; made the courageous weak
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.
Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.
'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe.
Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.
I abhor the dull routine of existence.
I am tired of myself in every way. All things, deep down to the secret of their roots, are stained by the color of my weariness.
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
Nothing can wear you out like caring about people
O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
I want to wear out,' he [Oldfield] said very softly. 'To wear out. Not to rust out.
I wonder at the idleness of tears.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
A wave of weariness took him. How could life be so unrelentingly ugly?
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel.
I wear my clothes, my clothes don't wear me.
Character is inured habit.
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
Boredom is a mask frustration wears.
Some days, I simply persist.
Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.
We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.
Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.
It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.
The disgruntled are abundant among those who are idle, and to be idle is a matter of choice.
exhaustion and the daily rigours of the
Sometimes you have no right to be tired! You have to work till you reach the glory! Sometimes you must refuse to repose; you must reach the target that you wish to reach just like an arrow never stopping here and there!
I find it tiring," he'd said.
The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
I am capable of being idle.
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.
I sit watching the brown oceanic waves of dry country rising into the foothills and I weep monotonously, seasickly. Life is not like the dim ironic stories I like to read, it is like a daytime serial on television. The banality will make you weep as much as anything else.
lethargic meliorist;
How Gloomy it is, to pause, to cease and to rust unburn, to get used and be indistinct. Like to live is to breathe.
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.
You get comfortable, even when you're unhappy, don't you think? Sometimes, it's really hard to take charge of your own unhappiness
There is nothing more abominable than being in a state of bodily exhaustion and mental irritation; I was too lethargic to get up and seek some means of occupying my mind, but I was too uneasy to fall asleep.
When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.
She was comfortable enough that she was beginning to suffer from the most chronic condition of slavery - boredom.
A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
Long exercised in woes.
Weltanschaung as Ennui [10w]
When world-view turns to world-weariness,
we see staleness in everything.
Hear "You are boring" as distant white laundry flapping in the breeze. Eventually
Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.
Tedium and ennui are the demons of modernity. These haunt us when the routines fail, the narratives dissolve, and time disintegrates (p. 718).
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.
Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.
Idleness and timidity often despair without being overcome, and forbear attempts for fear of being defeated; and we may promote the invigoration of faint endeavors, by showing what has already been performed.
I see dull people," she yawned.
I go through the motions of living in society
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.
As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.
With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.
Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end.
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
She was like someone in whom the faculty of becoming interested is worn out.
(To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)
Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh heart again in the gray twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.
Indecisiveness wears a person out.
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering
The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.
Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.
Jaded. I never understood the term. Jade is pretty and worth something, yes? I was rusted if I was anything. Too long in the rain. Going out in an orange blaze of muted, anonymous, common-as-dirt oxidation.
[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally compelled to remain stationary for hours together, waiting till the rain came before continuing my journey.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud.
She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.
You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness
they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.
I am fairly tired
bored beyond endurance
by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.
Absorption in ease and entertainment is a sure sign of dissipation and decline.
Everything in this world exists to wear you down.
What do you do from morning to night?"
"I endure myself.
He wore an air of perpetual resignation around him like a fashion accessory.
To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
You can either grow old gracefully or begrudgingly. I chose both.
If the mind is wearied by study, or the body worn with sickness,It is well to lie fallow for a while, in the vacancy of sheer amusement ;But when thou prosprest in health, and thine intellect can soar untired,To seek uninstructive pleasure is to slumber on the couch of indolence.
How shall I abide
In this dull world, which in thy absence is
No better than a sty?
But one day the "why" arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.
Tired, but not the kind of tired that sleep fixes.