Sedentary may refer to:
- Sedentary lifestyle, a type of lifestyle without physical exercise, usually referring to individual people
- Sedentism, permanently living in one place, usually referring to animals or people groups
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Famous quotes containing the word sedentary:
“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“I don’t really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven’t seen anybody all day.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)