Leisure Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Leisure.
Top Quotes
“Refusal of work”
“And leave us leisure to be good.”
“There is no wisdom without leisure.”
“Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.”
“Retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.”
“No blessed leisure for Love or Hope,
But only time for Grief.”
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“Do not say, "when I have leisure I will study," for you may never have leisure.”
“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”
“Wikipedia: Leisure”
“Whenever you are far away from all people, you find peace of mind calling you so you sit relaxed and reassured.”
“I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.”
“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.”
“For peace of mind a person stays away from problems sadness and despair which is to live in the present and not think about the past.~~ March 4, 2025”
“What, then, shall we do? someone may ask. What else, indeed, than devote ourselves to the care of our souls, keeping all our leisure free from other things.”
“Pleasure is not found in the comfort of the body or emptiness, but rather in fatigue and hardship when a person exerts great energy and effort and when days turn into rest and emptiness.”
“Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. . . . What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.”
“Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels,
How heavily we drag the load of life!
Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain,
It makes us wander, wander earth around
To fly that tyrant, thought.”
“With the abolition of otium and of the ego no aloof thinking is left. … Without otium philosophical thought is impossible, cannot be conceived or understood.”
“The soul is a command of equals and the forbidden is desirable We get tired in searching for comfort we are miserable in searching for happiness we go bankrupt after money we are born and die and we forget to live for the sake of obedience to God.”