Quotes About Stagnation

It was terrible to have that much nervous energy and nothing to do with it.

Her work failed her. She had reached a desperate, claustrophobic stage of being imprisoned halfway in a novel: there was too much behind her for her to retreat and not a glimmer of light ahead. She sat for hours without writing, staring at the last few wrods on the page, seeing no significance in them. Her characters fell into frozen poses, speech died on their lips: they had sat at a banquet for weeks and she had not the power to bring them to their feet again.

Kate has no job, nor does she pursue an interest; she cannot develop. Her life is as circular as the novel it defines.

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

The only differnce between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

can't do it while caught in this half-life!

For years, I lived a life in which nothing really happened.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

The mode of governing the country, according to the existing laws, is mostly worn into a rut, and most administrations move in it because it is easier to move there than anywhere else.

Society is too correct and dull to be an occupation.

In a thousand cases—in the great majority of cases—the progress of mankind has been arrested in this its earliest shape; it has been closely embalmed in a mummy-like imitation of its primitive existence.

But every time my thoughts reached this point, every time, my desire to speak would vanish. And so we remained precisely as we were, making no waves, at a standstill.

She was born smart. She's put her brain into neutral ever since, like everyone else in this place.

But the rest of what I was doing is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is like spinning. I sit in a room of thirty people I don't know, and I pedal faster and faster to keep pace, but when I'm done, I haven't moved an inch.

Complacency is an attribute of long-retained power like that of the Chinese.

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

The affair ran the usual course. Fever, boredom, trapped.

I feel rotten but I can't change the way I feel.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.