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
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
The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility,… — Thomas Addison Copy Share Image
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society. — Alan Paton 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
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
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Because I am a bad girl, people always automatically think that I am a bad girl. Or that I carry a dark… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about… — Aoife O'Donovan 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
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
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid. — Siri Hustvedt 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
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
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
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
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. — Christian Nestell Bovee 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
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
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
Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter. — Charlotte Sullivan Copy Share Image
All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
