Quotes About Stagnation

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).

doldrums, not only did prices continue to decline

The lesson in running brooks is that motion is a great purifier and health-producer. When the brook ceases to run, it soon stagnates. It keeps in touch with the great vital currents when it is in motion, and unites with other brooks to help make the river. In motion it soon leaves all mud and sediment behind. Do not proper work and the exercise of will power have the same effect upon our lives?

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping — rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas — But, goodness, why need they do it?

I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

If we get used to life that is the crime.

If you have a boring, insipid, mouse-like life where you're just afraid to be or do anything, then you don't bring much into your next life. You don't bring much power.

It's funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it's that life changes, but you as a person don't or maybe we adjust, but don't actually change.

That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

I don't think I was really going anywhere in life. I don't think, I was achieving too much, even though I had a stable job and all.

In my normal life I'm a very unadventurous person.

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck

Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her life should remain the same.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

It is not just that people are staying physically put. They are also likelier to stay trapped in the same income group. America, in particular, which had traditionally shown the highest class mobility of any Western country, now has the lowest.

The West's median income, meanwhile, has barely shifted in the last half-century.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

It was never quite clear to Eleanor why the English thought it was so distinguished to have done nothing for a long time in the same place

But it is hard to make anything like a truce between these two incompatible desires, the one for going on and on over the earth, the other that would settle for ever, in one place as in a grave and have nothing to do with change. Suppose a man to receive notice of death, it would be hard to decide whether to walk or sail until the end, seeing no man, or none but strangers; or to sit - alone - and by thinking or not thinking to make the change to come as little as is permitted. (pp 161)

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.