Quotes About Canker

People, he was beginning to understand, are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture. It brings them to flower; but it also nips them in the bud or plants a canker at the heart of the blossom.

The cankered passion of envy is nothing akin to the silly envy of the ass.L'Estrange,Fab.xxxviii.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.

Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

faded daily. Sometimes she suffered much pain from the canker

His poetry was a bouquet of dead, rotting roses, a sickness, a canker, a stupid, self-indulgent delusion.

They should make amends," she said. "They should face her, and confess, and try to make it right. They should go to jail and do volunteer work and show their sons they must be better. They should have to live with it, too, because I think no matter what they tell themselves, it must stay in them. A canker in them. A black place.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.