Quotes About Anhedonia

#1. When some of the neural "lights" in question have been switched off by injury, the outcome can be connected to a form of generalized depression, or what Dr. Jim Pfaus of Concordia University calls "anhedonia" - a state of pleasurelessness, bleakness, or grayness, in perceptions of the world.

Naomi Wolf

#2. How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. What I caught that winter was a memory of a purpose.

Jaida Jones

#4. Could there, I wanted to know, be any dignity in such a death? Can anything be salvaged of what once was, to bring a sense of himself to aman near his final hour, when he has been through so much?

Sherwin B. Nuland

#5. Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.

Charles Bukowski

#6. The greatest victory a person can have is the victory over himself.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.

Colson Whitehead

#8. Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.

Richard Armitage

#9. With the evolution of online retail, however, has come the revelation that being able to recategorize and rearrange products on the fly unlocks their real value.

Chris Anderson

#10. The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

James Madison

#11. Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

John Lennon

#12. Each photograph is a magic lamp rubbed by the mind.

Diane Ackerman

#13. One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

Jeffrey Bernard

#14. I said to Lucien, low and quiet and as vicious as the talons that formed at the tips of my fingers, as vicious as the wondrous weight between my shoulder blades, "When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness starts to stare back

Sarah J. Maas

#15. Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Seneca The Younger

#16. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !

Rajib Mukherjee

#17. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it ... which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'.

Robert A. Heinlein