Books, of which the principles are diseased or deformed, must be kept on the shelf of the scholar, as the man of… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“He had a distant sense that all this optimism was also morbid” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
My favorite shirt to sleep in is the one my birth mom was wearing when she died in my arms. Morbid for… — Jillian Barberie Copy Share Image
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer… — Jerry Adler Copy Share Image
Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit introspective,… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I love mixing humor and terror, or humor and exhaustion, or even humor and despair. I'm dealing right now with a loved… — Gail Simone Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood,… — Andrea Dworkin 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
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 has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Morbid anatomy is essential to training and research, but leads many doctors into thinking that life is an agitation in something essentially… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a little story. You may have heard it before. It's a story about a butcher named Barry. Once… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
“You’ve been unable to adjust to the idea of war.' 'Yes, sir.' 'You have a morbid aversion to dying.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
