SO GOOD QUOTES

—garrulousness: man flees thought so as to take refuge in speech; and curiosity: since he has lost his perspective on eternity, he compensates by a perpetual search for substitutes. Such garrulousness and such curiosity about other people’s business are the sign of a lack of substance in one’s own personal life. While focused very often on the faults of others, these gossips become set in their own mediocrity.

The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times
Jean-Charles Nault