Quotes about Listlessness

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui

Lulled into such an opium-like state of listlessness of vacant, unconscious reverie is this absent-minded youth by the blending cadence of the waves with thoughts, that at last he loses his identity; takes the mystic ocean at his feet for the visible image of that deep, blue, bottomless soul, pervading mankind and nature.

The loudest sound on the earth, she thought, is a man with nothing to do.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.