Best Morbid Sayings
100 Morbid quotes by 94 unique authors
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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own…
— Evelyn Underhill
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a…
— Florence Welch
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less…
— Oscar Wilde
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So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie…
— Sloane Crosley
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I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out,…
— Jonathan Ames
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Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to…
— Donna Tartt
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Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles…
— Matt Taibbi
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I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not…
— Stephen Chbosky
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I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.
— Cassandra Clare
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But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and…
— Dennis Lehane
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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted…
— Steven Morrissey
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The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.
— Marilyn Manson
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Song in the Manner of Housman" O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act…
— Ezra Pound
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God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any more morbid? Jeez,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. "…
— Rachel Caine
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I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.
— Novala Takemoto
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i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution.…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty,…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Is it just me or does the fact that you live in the same building you were abducted into seem a bit morbid?" "Pffft. It’s…
— Darynda Jones
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