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Hibernation Quotes

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Ralph Ellison
Preparation, Hibernation, Definitions
Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.38, Vintage

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Greek, Hibernation, Able
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.

Some authors have conceptualized depression as a "depletion syndrome" because of the prominence of fatigability; they postulate that the patient exhausts his available energy during the period prior to the onset of the depression and that the depressed state represents a kind of hibernation, during which the patient gradually builds up a new story of energy.

Aaron T. Beck
Depression, Energy, Hibernation
Aaron T. Beck (1967). “Depression: Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Aspects”, p.36, University of Pennsylvania Press

Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction. We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet.

Pascal Lamy
Long, Track, Hibernation

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

Anthony de Mello
Years, Twenties, Hibernation
"One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 73, 1992.

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

John O'Hara
Illinois, People, Hibernation
1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.

I liked John a lot. He was the one I really got on with the most. We weren't buddy-buddies but we were always friendly. But after the Beatles and the Stones stopped playing clubs, we didn't see each other that much until he separated from Yoko, around 1974. We got really friendly again. And when he went back with Yoko, he went into hibernation ... when I went to visit someone in the Dakota, I'd leave him a note saying: 'I live next door: I know you don't want to see anyone, but if you do, please call.' He never did.

Mick Jagger
Doors, Friendly, Hibernation

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