Anhedonic Quotes & Sayings

The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions. — Daisaku Ikeda

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred. — Epictetus

You're in the arms of the Angels; may you find some comfort here. — Sarah McLachlan

Kate Gompert's always thought of this anhedonic state as a kind of radical abstracting of everything, a hollowing out of stuff that used to have affective content. Terms the undepressed toss around and take for granted as full and fleshy - happiness, joie de vivre, preference, love - are stripped to their skeletons and reduced to abstract ideas. They have, as it were, denotation but not connotation. The anhedonic can still speak about happiness and meaning et al., but she has become incapable of feeling anything in them, of understanding anything about them, of hoping anything about them, or of believing them to exist as anything more than concepts. Everything becomes an outline of the thing. Objects become schemata. The world becomes a map of the world. An anhedonic can navigate, but has no location. I.e. the anhedonic becomes, in the lingo of Boston AA, Unable To Identify. — David Foster Wallace

Every blade of grass was craved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond — George R R Martin

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed. — Ray Lewis

I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports. — Patton Oswalt

And Lennie Tristano I like a lot, I still like him. — Mose Allison

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society. — Murray Rothbard

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least. — Pat Conroy

Yes, he knew he was falling in love, her way. And the worst part was, as disabling as he found the emotion to be he craved it all the more. To feel this way about a woman was amazing even if it was 'temporary and fleeting', as he'd put it. It was a natural high like he'd never felt before. One he couldn't get enough of. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Take what you need, and find solace where you can. — Crispin Sartwell

He came down from the North to Paris with a mind like Aristotle's and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the Commandments on the spot. — James Goldman

Mans vanity transgresses death — Erik Christian Haugaard

I knew, even as we touched that I had never wanted anything more in all my life. All my crabbed cravings were as a cupful of pond water beside the vast ocean of longing I felt surging through me. My head swam; my eyes blurred. I burned from the inside out as if my blood and bones were consumed with liquid fire. — Stephen R. Lawhead

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash — Andy Stanley