Quotes About Stagnation

Ivanov's breath smelled of vodka and sewers, sour and heavy, like something rotting, reminiscent of empty houses near swamps, nightfall at four in the afternoon, vapors rising from the sickly grass and fogging the dark windows. A horror film, thought Ansky. Where everything has come to a halt, and it comes to a halt because it knows it's lost.

The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

So, with all the wide world to choose from, you didn't choose at all. You simply stopped wandering one day

Have you ever felt as if you could actually feel time flowing away from you? As if life was passing you by and you were caught in a backwater with the dead fish and old sticks?

The generals were now two years into this war and it should have been - and indeed was - glaringly apparent that the methods being employed to attack the enemy lines, be they British, French or German, were simply not working. Increasing the scale of the attack by the current methods simply increased the number of casualties

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

You've been treading water," she said. "You're marking the years, not living them.

He wondered what it would be like to grow up in one place and stay there all your life, to forever be defined by your childhood relationships, to never know if you got to be the person you wanted to be, to always be the person you were when you were young.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

It was simply a marking of time with no meaningful changes.

But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.

life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

to slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor.

Ä°nsan bir yerde tak?l?p kald?kça, nesneler ve insanlar iyice yozla??yorlar, çürüyorlar ve s?rf sizin hat?r?n?za leÅŸ gibi kokmaya baÅŸl?yorlar.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

When there are no new ideas things can remain the same

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

A veces tengo la sensación de que uno se mueve en la vida dando siempre vueltas por los mismos lugares

and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that his own inclination -his own nature- suspended him always in a kind of no-man's-land between remaining and leaving.

Oba-sans, to put it in somewhat difficult terms, are life-forms that have stopped evolving. And anyone can turn into an Oba-san. Young women, of course, but even young men, even middle-aged men —even children. You turn into an Oba-san the instant you lose the will to evolve.

I don't feel like doing anything. I don't feel like riding the motion is too powerful; I don't feel like walking-it is too tiring; I don't feel like lying down, for either I would have to stay down, and I don't feel like doing that, or I would have to get up again, and I don't feel like doing that, either. Summa Summarum: I don't feel like doing anything.

I feel as a chessman must when the opponent says of it: that piece cannot be moved.

It's as if we're standing still and the world is traveling past us. Or maybe the world is TV and I don't know who's in charge of the zapper.