Quotes About Poison
I realize the answer to who I am lies in that handful of poisonous fruit.
~ Suzanne Collins
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How'd you lose Mags?" "In the fog. Finnick had Peeta. I had Mags for a while. Then I couldn't lift her. Finnick said he couldn't take them both. She kissed him and walked right into the poison," I say. "She was Finnick's mentor, you know," Johanna says accusingly. "No, I didn't," I say. "She was half his family," she says a few moments later, but there's less venom behind it.
~ Suzanne Collins
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say "nightlock,
~ Suzanne Collins
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Humor is an important quality that makes one cheerful in all walks of life. To cultivate this quality is very important. When the poison was given to Socrates, he was very humorous and made a few jokes. When the cup of hemlock was given to him he said, "Can I share a bit of it with the gods?" Then he smiled and said, "Poison has no power to kill a sage, for a sage lives in reality, and reality is eternal." He smiled and took the poison.
~ Swami Rama
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To the ego, love is poison.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
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I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaidpoison every next moment.I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.
~ Stephen Dunn, Different Hours
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His love was a poison: soft and loveable, hideous yet touchable.
~ Dominic Riccitello
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Let us call Mithridatization the result of an exposure to a small dose of a substance that, over time, makes one immune to additional, larger quantities of it. It is the sort of approach used in vaccination and allergy medicine. It is not quite antifragility, still at the more modest level of robustness, but we are on our way. And we already have a hint that perhaps being deprived of poison makes us fragile and that the road to robustification starts with a modicum of harm.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Poison is drunk in golden cups
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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distil drops of bitterness into her heart; sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles; and sometimes, also, by a coarser expression, that fell upon the sufferer's defenceless breast like a rough blow upon an ulcerated wound.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Yes, poisonous thing!" repeated Giovanni, beside himself with passion. "Thou hast done it! Thou has blasted me! Thou hast filled my veins with poison! Thou hast made me as hateful, as ugly, as loathsome and deadly a creature as thyself – a world's wonder of hideous monstrosity! Now, if our breath be happily as fatal to ourselves as to all others, let us join our lips in one kiss of unutterable hatred, and so die!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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There is no other fear so horrible and unhumanizing as that which makes man dread to breathe heaven's vital air lest it be poison, or to grasp the hand of a brother or friend lest the grip of the pestilence should clutch him.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Gleaning is performed, not administered, Scythe Goddard told him. It is a willful action. To slip into passivity and allow poison to do all the work is an embarrassment to who and what we are.
~ Neal Shusterman
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I expect a full night's sleep from you, followed by a recitation of your poisons in the morning, in order of toxicity. My poison? In spite of his pain and drug-induced haze, Scythe Faraday smiled. Yes, your poisons. Are you my apprentice or not? Citra couldn't help but smile right back at him. Yes, Your Honor, I am.
~ Neal Shusterman
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Take with water and within seconds your fingers will secrete a transdermal poison. Anyone you touch for the next hour will be instantly and painlessly gleaned." The Weaponsmaster was so impressed, he came up to the stage to take a dose, then, in the ultimate demonstration, proceeded to glean the saleswoman. She sold fifty vials of the stuff to the Scythedom posthumously.
~ Neal Shusterman
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It's time, Old Captain, lift anchor, sink! The land rots; we shall sail into the night; if now the sky and sea are black as ink our hearts, as you must know, are filled with light. Only when we drink poison are we well — we want, this fire so burns our brain tissue, to drown in the abyss — heaven or hell, who cares? Through the unknown, we'll find the new. (Le Voyage)
~ Charles Baudelaire
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Only when we drink poison are we well.
~ Charles Baudelaire
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La haine est une liqueur précieuse, un poison plus cher que celui des Borgia, car il est fait avec notre sang, notre santé, notre sommeil et les deux tiers de notre amour! Il faut en être avare!
~ Charles Baudelaire
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I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.
~ Charles Bukowski
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We are dying birds we are sinking ships— the world rocks down against us and we throw out our arms and we throw out our legs like the death kiss of the centipede: but they kindly snap our backs and call our poison "politics.
~ Charles Bukowski
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Yasalar zehirli karaborsalarda kendi zehirlerini yaratir.
~ Charles Bukowski
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He said, the tongue no man can tame. It is an unruly evil that's full of deadly poison. It will poison your body. It will poison your spirit. It will poison your life. OR, it will put you over in life, if used correctly. It will build life and health into spirit, soul, and body.
~ Charles Capps
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My father used to say that it is the fear of causing offense that makes men swallow poison.
~ Chinua Achebe
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