Inactivity Quotes

“Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.”
― Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir

“That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.”
― C.L. Allen, I Am Become Zombie

“The trouble with people nowadays is they don't know how to do nothing.”
― Iris Murdoch, A Severed Head

“[When there's an event you don't really want to go to] there is this not unlikely circumstance that you will have a memory of an evening that was like ugh. But if you don't go you won't have any memory of that evening. It would just be another one where nothing happened.”
― Hank Green

“job (noun): the work that we do to secure the means of survival and – in some cases – a spring of satisfaction and delight; more often, a useful tool that we have in our possession in order to distract ourselves from potential alarming thoughts and to release us from the boredom of inactivity. Furthermore, a source that finances our leisure time so that this can effectively continue the important task of distraction.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“Time may be defined as " dimension governed by activity." Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.”
― Moutasem Algharati

“Sin comunicación, sin interacción tan sólo eres un número más desde una perspectiva social.

Y los números son planos como la ideas son profundas.

Sólo tú decides dónde situarte y qué cambiar para ser, hacer, para sentir y para avanzar.

El estado contemplativo es un mal asiento en este Teatro ".”
― Fernando González y Lozano

“Evil is entertained by a people entertained to death.”
― Criss Jami

“I imagine that a minority of people were born to be active participants, while a majority were meant to be passive observers.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia