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Quotes About Poison

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
Depression is like a slow poison which kills you from inside. It is a disease that has no cure, but it heals with some time. It makes a person so lonely, that the person doesn't want to live anymore.
~ Unknown
One of the deadliest poisons a person can consume in their lifetime is the poison of jealousy. Jealousy opens flood gate of self destruction.
~ Anil Sinha
I watched his face for surprise or disgust, even terror. But he only nodded. "She told me." Of course she had. She was a poisoner at heart; she wanted to be sure I came as villain, not saviour.
~ Madeline Miller
no mide las palabras y de vez en cuando se va de la lengua y deja caer palabras envenenadas que corren por las venas, como un cáncer maligno, hasta llegar al corazón y matarlo.
~ Unknown
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Malachy McCourt
And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into every image and every memory I kept of Callum, polluting them until I couldn't tell which was real and what was just wishful thinking any more. Until at last, I was forced to face the inescapable fact that, for whatever reason, Callum had written the letter.
~ Malorie Blackman
H.P. Lovecraft, wrote of places of evil and filth, of places where slimy things crawled away from the light to nurse on poison and scum.
~ Marc MacYoung
Two traits of Albertine's character came back to me at that moment, one to comfort and the other to appall me, for we can find everything in our memory: it is a kind of pharmacy or chemical laboratory, where one's hand may fall at any moment on a sedative drug or a dangerous poison.
~ Marcel Proust
So temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
~ John Owen
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
~ John Owen
You strike me as a 'glass half-empty' kind of guy, sir," he said. "I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.
~ John Scalzi
I'm a 'the glass is half-empty and filled with poison' kind of guy, actually," Wilson said.
~ John Scalzi
He did not often think of people as individuals, but rather as antidotes for the poison of his loneliness, as escapes from the imprisoned ghosts.
~ John Steinbeck
Los seres humanos tienen a veces más ponzoña que las serpientes.
~ John Steinbeck
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.
~ Chris Wooding, Poison
Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul
~ Dean Koontz
Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.
~ Steve Maraboli
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words
~ Unknown
The very same substance, yet destined to have completely different effects on me. The same illness can evolve; and a sweet poison comes to be less tolerated when, with the years, the heart's resistance has weakened.
~ Marcel Proust
E eu continuava resistindo. E essa resistência me custava cada vez menos esforço, porque, por muito apego que se tenha ao veneno que nos está fazendo mal, quando por uma necessidade se passa algum tempo sem ingeri-lo, não é possível deixar de apreciar o descanso, que antes era coisa desconhecida, e a ausência de emoções e sofrimentos.
~ Marcel Proust
When I raised a corner of the heavy curtain of habit (the stupefying habit which during the whole course of our life conceals from us almost the whole universe, and in the dead of night, without changing the label, substitutes for the most dangerous or intoxicating poisons of life some kind of anodyne which does not procure any delight), such a memory would come back to me
~ Marcel Proust