Quotes About Morbid

Too evident sorrow does not inspire pity but repugnance, it is the sign of mental instability or of bad manners: it is morbid.

All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.

Wake up and smell the corpses.

Some minds corrode, and grow inactive, under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginative in the loneliness of confinement.

That'll be hilarious if he does all this, wakes up in some dude's body, then gets hit by a bus the next day. I'd even go to his funeral.

a morbid longing for the picturesque at all cost.

DOES SUCH a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.

A morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs

It is, of course, open to anyone to say that the whole idea is morbid and exaggerated--open even to those who think nothing of queuing for twenty-four hours in acute discomfort to see the first night of a musical comedy, which lasts three hours at most, which they are not sure of liking when they get there, and which they could see any other night with no trouble at all.

Don't you think you're being rather morbid?' I asked. 'Yes,' said Megan. 'That's what people always say when you're saying the truth.

If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat — just to see what ran out of it.

Look at that Barkovitch. He ain't in it to get no Prize. He's just walkin' to see other people die. He lives on it. When someone gets a ticket, he gets a little more go-power. It ain't enough. He'll dry up just like a leaf on a tree.

the sympathy calls had been shot through with a subtle, yet unmistakably morbid glee. The queen had at last been nudged from her throne. It had taken disaster to do it, but still.

Ignorance is a sickness every person should avoid.. as once you are infected by it.. it becomes a morbid rotation that sometimes can be hard to escape from.

This is what my girlfriend would look like without skin.

He had seen the insides of jaggedly ripped-open dead people. He knew, for instance, what brains looked like spilling out of somebody's head. In the context of this, much of what went on in normal life seemed wholly and disturbingly ridiculous.

I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human.

I sometimes wonder if necrophiliacs are really into dead people or if they just enjoy the quiet.

I have a dark sense of humor.

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

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

There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else. (from The Conqueror)

Death is a fascinating lure to men who can stand aside and watch it operate on someone else.