Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature; they lead still lives, waiting.

Waiting for what?

Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them, or at least protect them from the big bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs, and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.

"They lead "still" lives, waiting. - Myrna Landers

Waiting for what? - Armand Gamache

Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. - Myrna"

Like men in his position throughout history, Kingsley Pryor did nothing as events swept him to their conclusion; simply waiting and praying that a magical third option would spring from nowhere.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

To wait for life is the pathway to death.

Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.

There seemed nothing to do but live.

Her tragedy was that she always found men to save her. She never had to save herself. She never knew she could.

They prevented men from doing anything. But they did nothing themselves. They did not rule, they only blighted.

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her.

Waiting for somebody to come help you is dangerous.

Despoiled of rights and presumptions granted even common criminals, the Issei and Nisei suffered in silence, hoping that acquiescence would prove their loyalty and improve their lot. They did not know the government.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

Those who look for death have to wait patiently till death finds those who look.