Morbid Quotes

• Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Which
  • Equilibrium
  • Morbid

• When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • History
  • Alone
  • Teach

• There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

  

  Raymond Smullyan
  • Responsibility
  • Orientation
  • Morbid

• It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • She
  • Bad
  • Guy

• I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Pleasure
  • Enemies
  • Forgiving

• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  

  Angus Wilson
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Effort

• No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Express
  • Morbid

• The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Health
  • States
  • Morbid

• Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Paranoid

• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Long
  • Done
  • Action

• No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Horse
  • Race
  • Morbid

• The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for them, may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.

  

  Antoine Bechamp
  • Phenomena
  • Morbid
  • Disorders

• Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Growth
  • Hinduism
  • Disfigures

• The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.

  

  William Cowper Brann
  • Political
  • Reason
  • Religious

• Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes." That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Said
  • Missing
  • Vampire

• As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

  

  David Pajo
  • Love
  • Death
  • Atheist

• Trying to gather up my thoughts was as futile as trying to pick up spilled mercury. I had two big main depressing thoughts and each time I touched them they broke into many little morbid pieces.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Depressing
  • Mercury
  • Morbid

• My life changes dramatically every time I get up out of bed. After my proposal life changed in that I wasn't asked to change. I always thought that marriage meant someone was going to ask you to stop being who you were. And I met someone who not only wants me to be who I am but likes it. So, my life changed in that my views towards marriage stopped being morbid. I found I was ready to be a good partner where I don't think I was a very good partner to people before. I stepped up my game.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Home
  • House
  • Kind