Quotes About Stagnation

Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

Their lives had stopped, frozen, as if in a picture, and the days were nothing more than empty squares on a calendar.

I don't think two blokes having the same fucking argument for 16 years over and over is the stuff of opera. Oasis: the Opera would be very short. The fat lady would refuse to sing it.

No, you can forget their going anywhere.

Again, we go back to the power of words and how they can make you feel. They bring liberation or stagnation, they're chains. I began to see the structure of Tori—there's conservatory, and victory: you see that word in so many different other words—also anti-inflammatory but my favorite has to be Yakatori chicken. And I began to feel that the sound of this name was a window.

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.

Was Frank right that she needed to experience what normal felt like? Or would she always be the princess in the tower who could never find the stairs?

defensiveness bores me, because it all sounds the same.

when mediocrity follows talent, and the pattern remains the same, decay is inevitable.

Clint. She felt it before she'd met him, years before. The feeling of being trapped in a hole. No growth, no enhancement. Being trapped in this one place and unable to move. It seemed like such a simple plan in the beginning. First high school, then college, then career, then husband and children.

Tomorrow was another day, at least by the calendar, but the two could hardly be told apart: the heat, the faintly drifting cloud, the ship pitching heavily with no way on her, the flaccid sails, were all the same:

I dalje ništa novo. Ali to ne može trajati zauvijek.

Hell is where time has stopped, where there's no more innovation. No horizon. No change. I sometimes think Hell would suit the British down to the ground, and that, given the chance, they'd vote for it.

I heard them complain sometimes, but it was the ineffectual bitching of people who didn't expect anything about their situation to ever change, and who wouldn't know what to do with themselves if it did.

Just curiosity," I said. When he made a disapproving squint, I added, "Don't you go over now and then?" "Never been there," he said. "It's ten feet away!" "I'm staying here," he said, his squint now suggesting that I should be doing the same.

Eagle Pass seemed a town in decline.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

She was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on.

I am tired of days that are all the same.

I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.