Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
I was very young, and I was on vacation with my family, and there was a retrospective of old films, and one… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger,… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism;… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
In these strenuous times, we are likely to become morbid and look constantly on the dark side of life, and spend entirely… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
As a moral and social institution, a weekly rest is invaluable. It is a quiet domestic reunion for the bustling sons of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“And in a mad trance Strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings We decay Like corpses in a charnel Fear & Grief… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder… — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. I don't know if it's maybe from being on… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for… — Antoine Bechamp Copy Share Image
But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Things change when you get to 40. I'm embarrassed even that I'm going through it. In a very morbid way, at 40… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“I could give you children,” said Jack, sounding faintly affronted. “You’d have to tell me how many heads you wanted them to… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,'… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“One extraordinary feature of the private quintas or orchards and plantations in the vicinity of the Saladeros was the walls or hedges.… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image