Languish Quotes - Laziness Quotes

"Styana: A person suffering from languor has no goal, no path to follow and no enthusiasm. His mind and intellect become dull due to inactivity and their faculties rust. Constant flow keeps a mountain stream pure, but water in a ditch stagnates and nothing good can flourish in it."
B.K.S. Iyengar (on the distractions and obstacles to the aspirant's practice of yoga), Light on Yoga

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses Simpson Grant

"A lazy man loves nothing."

A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.
Ayn Rand, The Voice of Reason


On the positive side:

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Agatha Christie