Morbid Quotes

Morbid Quote of the day

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.

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.

When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.

They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence.

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes." That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.

It sounds morbid, but because my mother knew she was dying, she discussed with us her not being there, and it helped me and my brother deal with her passing that much better.