Hibernation Quotes

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

  Ralph Ellison

  Preparation, Definitions, Action

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

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• 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, Able, Human Nature

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 44, 1799.

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• HIBERNAR, v. i. Pasar la estación invernal en reclusión doméstica. Ha habido muchas nociones populares singulares sobre la hibernación de diversos animales. Muchos creen que el oso hiberna durante todo el invierno y subsiste chupándose mecánicamente las patas. Se admite que sale de su retiro en primavera tan flaco que tiene que intentarlo dos veces antes de poder proyectar una sombra.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Retirement, Spring, Believe

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2418, Delphi Classics

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Years, Twenties, Life Is

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

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• 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, Today

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• Vive cada día para cumplir tu misión personal. Dios tiene una razón para cualquier temporada que estés viviendo en este momento. ¿Una temporada de pérdidas o de bendiciones? ¿Una temporada de actividad o de hibernación? ¿Una temporada de crecimiento o de incubación? Puede que pienses que estás en un desvío, pero Dios conoce el mejor camino para que llegues a tu destino.

  Barbara Johnson

  Pérdida, Bendición, Pensamiento

  Barbara Johnson (2000). "Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around", p.54, Zondervan

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• I have a sequence to my creative life. In spring and fall, I am above ground and commit to community. In the summer, I'm outside. It is a time for family. And in the winter, I am underground. Home. This is when I do my work as a writer - in hibernation. I write with the bears.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Verano, primavera, otoño

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. February 1, 2005.

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• In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Voice, People

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• 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, Stories

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

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• Sus labios, parcialmente abiertos, se abrieron de par en par y su lengua, suave y perfumada, penetró en su boca, donde comenzó una búsqueda incesante de palabras sin forma, de un código secreto grabado allí. La lengua de Tengo respondió inconscientemente a este movimiento y pronto sus lenguas fueron como dos serpientes jóvenes en un prado primaveral, recién despertadas de su hibernación y entrelazándose hambrientas, cada una guiada por el aroma de la otra.

  Haruki Murakami

  Spring, Snakes, Two

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• They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.  Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.

  Guillaume Musso

  Love, Block, Years

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• Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.

  Seth Moulton

  Sleep, Eye, Europe

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• 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, Clubs

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• She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Running, Country

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, States

  1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.

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• Beneath her cheek, his heart was thumping steadily. Definitely faster than his usual near-hibernation beat. Lifting her head, she flashed him a tight smile. “I get to you.” “Are you kidding? You own me,” he said, his voice running over her like silk.

  Jill Shalvis

  Running, Heart, Voice

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Sep 13, 2013

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