Quotes About Stagnation

it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.

He asked himself those some questions too many times and felt the fears again that kept him where he was

Forced idleness is a terrible thing.

At that moment I was fully aware for the first time how far advanced the process of paralysis already was in me—it was as if I were moving through flowing, bright water without being halted or taking root anywhere, and I knew very well that this chill was something dead and corpse-like, not yet surrounded by the foul breath of decomposition but already numbed beyond recovery, a grimly cold lack of emotion.

Maar zelfs tussen betrouwbare mensen verveelde ik me steeds meer bij de onvruchtbaarheid van de eeuwige discussies en de zelfverkozen verzuiling in radicale, liberale, anarchistische, bolsjewistische en onpolitieke groepen; voor het eerste leerde ik werkelijk het eeuwige type van de professionele revolutionair waarnemen, die zich door zijn oppositionele positie boven zijn onbeduidendheid uitgetild voelt en zich vastklampt aan het dogmatische omdat hij in zichzelf geen houvast heeft.

Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.

They were always on the move.But in truth said bull we are all going nowhere

I tried.Can't do it.Brain's empty.

Non poté fare altro, naturalmente, che incorniciare le sue frasi in quel modo vuoto e stantio di cui ormai era schiavo. Qualsiasi cosa si provi, nel cuore o nello stomaco, le vecchie abitudini restano radicate. Parole e gesti rispondono a leggi dittatoriali, senza fantasia; un rito spettrale, che nega lo spirito.

It's just that when you're playing in standard tuning all the time," Moore explained, "you're sounding pretty… standard.

I was to spend the daytime summer stunned by air-conditioning, almost without a thought in my head, waiting for the engagement of evening.

Nothing can change for them, because they themselves can't change anymore.

Para ellos no puede cambiar nada, porque ellos mismos no pueden ya cambiar.

people threw around when they wanted the conversation to end, and for brains to go dead, and for all questioning to cease.

I thought Chaos all howling, random creativity," said Corum. "This is worse." "It is what becomes of a place when Chaos exhausts its invention," Jhary told him. "Ultimately, Chaos brings a more profound stagnation than anything it despises in Law. It must forever seek more and more sensation, more and more empty marvels, until there is nothing left and it has forgotten what true invention is.

I think the longer a sitcom is on the air, by necessity, the dumber the characters have to get: otherwise, they would be learning and growing, and they won't be funny, so they have to get more and more extremely whatever they are.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

I'd been in love with her for years. I never left this suburban town. I didn't go to university. I went to Audrey.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

Endgame goals were fuzzy or unstated. The result was often weeks or months of delay.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.

I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.

The faces were empty as plates, and nobody seemed to be breathing.

Dla cz?owieka siedz?cego pod szklanym kloszem, znieczulonego na wszystko, zatrzymanego w rozwoju jak embrion w spirytusie, ca?e ?ycie jest jednym wielkim, z?ym snem. Z?y sen! Pami?tam ka?d? jego chwil?.