Acedia Quotes

#1. Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Mignon McLaughlin

#2. Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

Mignon McLaughlin

#3. Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

Adam Gopnik

#4. In medieval times, if someone displayed the symptoms we now identify as boredom, that person was thought to be committing something called acedia, a 'dangerous form of spiritual alienation'
a devaluing of the world and its creator.

Richard Louv

#5. Acedia is sorrow so complete that the flesh pervails completely over the spirit. You don't just turn your back on the world, you turn your back on God. You don't care, and you don't care that you don't care.

Mishka Shubaly

#6. Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.

Dan Brown

#7. Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.

Molly Friedenfeld

#8. A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

G.H. Hardy

#9. If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately written about it and disclosed the situation to our readers. And if I had ever ordered a writer to remove content, I would have expected that writer to have done the same to me.

Michael Arrington

#10. There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

Gary Sinise

#11. Isn't mockery the province of the insecure?

Roland Merullo

#12. Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century.

Jane Brox

#13. Change is one of the unavoidable facts of all existence. Any attempt to avoid change only results in an unnatural waste of energy.

Michael R. Poll

#14. While behavior is almost always motivated, it is also almost always biologically, culturally and situationally determined as well.

E. M. Forster

#15. The Emperor Napoleon Buonaparte had been banished to the island of Elba. However His Imperial Majesty had some doubts wheter a quiet island life would suit him - he was, after all, accustomed to governing a large proportion of the known world.

Susanna Clarke

#16. Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

Robin Boyd

#17. Keeping score, in friendships, is a losing game.

Frank Sonnenberg

#18. I am the owner of my life, so hold your tongue and let me live.

Debasish Mridha

#19. There is something really wrong with those boys. When your mother says don't walk in front of a bus, she has a good reason."
From the kitchen, Persephone's soft voice called, "If someone had stopped you from walking in front of a bus, Maura, Blue wouldn't be here.

Maggie Stiefvater

#20. He had no thought of how it was before he came to the farm. His memory of those times was like a house where no one lives and the furniture has rotten away.

Truman Capote

#21. Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Norman Cousins