Quotes about Stagnation

For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.

He was in an eddy again, a deep, lethargic gulf, without desire to work or write, love or dissipate.

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

Love could do that to some people and they wouldn't even know much they'd missed out on; they simply remained in the place where love had left them, while the whole world spun around.

Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.

Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.

This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It's a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already know and do, even if those things are flawed and inefficient.

And as he had seen her that day, so she had remained; never quite the same height, yet never below it: generous, faithful, unwearied; but so lacking in imagination, so incapable of growth, that the world of her youth had fallen into pieces and rebuilt itself without her ever being conscious of the change.

Familiarity breeds complacency.