Quotes About Poison

We desire the wrong things, and we desire right things in the wrong way. And both are deadly—like eating pleasant poison.

The Poisoned Toilet Bowl

When one carries poison, thoughts of death are never far away.

Regimentation, methodization, systematization, standardization, organization, coordination, disciplined arrangements, conformity -- these things are at the very heart of our national state policies, and are the poison that has killed our families and left individual survivors in a numbed, angry, nearly hysterical condition.

My first lyric departed directly from Mingus's title "This Subdues My Passion." If you didn't think the song was already half written after that title, then you had no business dallying with the tune in the first place. I wrote about the way that music tempers the violence within a man. This subdues my passion And it may control my rage It may stem the poison that spills out onto the page

Nu preÅ£uiesc o carte decât prin tulburarea, prin otrava pe care-o toarn? în mine.

Nu preÈ›uiesc o carte decât prin tulburarea, prin otrava pe care-o toarn? in mine.

En el estallido del volcán de nuestro ser, ¿bastaría el veneno acumulado en nosotros para envenenar al mundo entero?

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

It is, no doubt, better for us to apply appropriate remedies to our diseases than to put our whole trust in the healing powers of nature. But it is better to put our trust in the healing powers of nature than to poison ourselves straight off by swallowing the contents of the first phial presented to us by any self-constituted physician.

O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Glory is a poison, good to be taken only in small doses.

My sadness will but make thee weep; Thou'lt win no smile from me; So young a plant 'twere sin to keep Beneath woe's poison tree.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Beyond the window, snow fell like frozen drops of poison.

But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.

Betrayal bleeds backward into the past, putting doubts and worries into what were once wonderful memories of connection. Betrayal is poison not just for the present, but for the past and the future too.

I can't name the poison that's killing your friend. But the one that's killing you is called hope.

After all, poison is only contagious at dinner parties.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

Next time you wish to feed me poison, warn me first," Loor demanded. (The Merchant of Death)

El miedo tiende con demasiada frecuencia a bloquear la deliberación racional, envenena la esperanza e impide la cooperación constructiva en pos de un futuro mejor.

Hate is more toxic than any chemical. It poisons from the inside out. And it's a fast-acting poison; before you know it you're filled with it, and the hate is in charge. You can't control it anymore.

I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble with poisons a good deal.