solidarity

“I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn’t like walking or carrying things.”

– Lech Walesa [born 1943]

on idleness

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Bertrand Russell

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” 

- Pascal

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"It's nice to have something which is unfinished because it implies that there is still room for growth."
- Japanese essays on idleness

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“Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”

- Thomas Carlyle 

Make perfect your will

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The lot of man is ceaseless labor,

Or ceaseless idleness,which is still harder,

Or irregular labour,which is not pleasant.

- T. S. Eliot [1888-1965], excerpts from Choruses from the Rock, 1934

An earlier reference to T.S. Eliot here.

The Importance of Being Idle

"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world."
- Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]

The experts on idleness.

An earlier reference to Wilde here.