Quotes About Stagnation

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death.

Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

But you come to a point in your life when you can't pull the trigger anymore.

If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay

If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress?

The modern proverb "Use it or lose it" is very wise. If we don't exercise our muscles, they waste away. If we don't exercise our minds, they begin to close.

Tomorrow came, and it was much like yesterday. Just more so.

Lots of people haven't done anything,' said longest friend. 'And still they're not doing it, will always be not doing it, in their private coffins down at the usual place.

What if the next chapter was the same as this chapter, as had been the last chapter? What if all chapters stayed the same or even, as time went on, got worse?

The world had become an arctic prison from which no escape was possible, all its creatures trapped as securely as were the trees, already lifeless inside their deadly resplendent armour.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

We are much more bothered by the downside potential of changing course than we are by the downside potential of staying on the path we're already on.

Personne ne se demandait combien de temps ça durerait, l'interdiction d'avorter et de vivre ensemble sans se marier. Les signes de changements collectifs ne sont pas perceptibles dans la particularité des vies, sauf peut-être dans le dégoût et la fatigue qui font penser secrètement "rien ne changera donc jamais" à des milliers d'individus en même temps.

Mais le processus de stagnation de la douleur est enclenché, semble-t-il.

Les signes de changements collectifs ne sont pas perceptibles dans la particularité des vies, sauf peut-être dans le dégoût et la fatigue qui font penser secrètement 'rien ne changera donc jamais' à des milliers d'individus en même temps.

A steady salary is an invitation to mediocrity.

If you do a job too well, you'll get stuck with it.