Tag: laziness (13 entries)
Idleness, laziness, sloth.
In defence of defeatism
Sometimes getting outside one’s “comfort zone” just causes discomfort and nothing else. Read the full page
Andrew McIntosh – The Point of Pointlessness (Ineffectual Whinging)
[…] that whole insane “get up and go” mentality, starting with the obscenity of the work ethic, squirming as it did like soft stool out of the arsehole of Christianity, condemning us to mindless labour and activity simply for its own sake. Work for its own sake – what kind of fucking numpty thought that was a good idea? Read the full page
The background radiation
And the radiation tells you things that are true and at the same time absurd, cold, and above all rough. Read the full page
Often, journalists or even in casual conversations, I have been asked the question: why do you write? Normally, I answer, and it is the truth, that there are two reasons of great importance. The first has to do with the need not to have a boss. The second, not to get up early. I think everyone would agree that these are not only important things but also, in general, difficult to achieve.
Fishermans Horizon – A tribute
Music and pictures for the nostalgia of that place. Read the full page
Angels of the Universe – Einar Már Guðmundsson
No, this grave is not deep enough to accomodate the feelings of us all. Read the full page
The Trouble With Being Born – Emil Cioran
No sooner are they [the eyes] open than the drama begins. To look without understanding—that is paradise. Hell, then, would be the place where we understand, where we understand too much… Read the full page
When I torment myself a little too much for not working, I tell myself that I might just as well be dead and that then I would be working still less…
Who Works Is Lost (Chi lavora è perduto) – Tinto Brass
The world be damned, breaking your back for a slice of bread. Damned be the world, either you die of hunger or you die or boredom. Continue reading
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.
idleness (n.)
Intervals of lucidity in the chaos of life.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.