| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 95948ef | I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old. | marriage relationships old-habits stagnant | Leo Tolstoy | |
| f79e3d0 | Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility. | relationships friendship hostility the-black-prince iris-murdoch stagnant resentment | Iris Murdoch | |
| eef77f8 | We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves are not paying sufficient attention. | progress literature death-of-literature stagnant | Thomas C. Foster |