Poisoned Quotes

173 Poisoned quotes by 143 unique authors

I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better. — Johnny Depp
I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I felt I could only be myself when I was alone, that I turned into… — Johnny Depp
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. — Tryon Edwards
Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned. — W.C. Fields
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. — Herbert Hoover
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. — John Locke
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing… — Max Lucado
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom… — Henry Miller
I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned… — John Steinbeck
You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats. — Maya Angelou
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
even damnation is poisoned with rainbows. — Leonard Cohen
Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime… — Anne Lamott
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. — Aldous Huxley
Please believe me when I tell you that I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born. I even kissed a… — Markus Zusak
The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they… — Meg Rosoff
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river… — Arthur Koestler
Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn… — Scott Lynch
My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact,… — Salman Rushdie
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle
Everything rests on the poisoned wine. If it were just the queen, I could force it down her gullet, but Declan Broekhart would run me… — Eoin Colfer
Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower,… — Tite Kubo
Will there be poppy juice in it?" Phresine shook her head. "Good. My wife and I agreed that only my wine was to be poisoned. — Megan Whalen Turner
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon.… — Rick Riordan

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