Ellen Glasgow Quotes

A rut is a grave with the ends kicked out.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

I don't want to be totally repetitive and doing the same thing over and over again for the rest of my life. I don't want to do that at all.

My fear is getting stuck doing the same thing over and over.

For me, repetition is death.

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.

I don't want to return to places and sing the same songs a second time.

Doing the same thing in the same way year after year is like eating a quail a day for thirty days. Along toward the middle of the month a fellow begins to long for a broiled crow or a slice of cold dog.

What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

My days are straight out of the movie Groundhog Day.

Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

Every time I get something that's different than the last thing, I get excited. I don't want to play the same thing, every single time.