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Quotes About Morbid

We see the clash between nationalism and humanism in morbid patriotic slogans like "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" (Sweet and right it is to die for your country) and "Happy those who with a glowing faith in one embrace clasped death and victory.
~ Steven Pinker
People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I really hate threesomes when one of the participants is dead.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
If Baudelaire, in hieroglyphics of the soul, had deciphered the return of the age of the sentiment and ideas, Poe, in the field of morbid psychology had more especially investigated the domain of the soul.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
If Baudelaire had made out among the hieroglyphics of the soul the critical age of thought and feeling, it was Poe who, in the sphere of morbid psychology, had carried out the closest scrutiny of the will.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
' Daisies' is about a guy touching dead people and bringing them back to life. It's kind of morbid, you know. But there's a love to it. There's a kind-heartedness to it that I think makes it - I don't know; it's a good thing to put out there in the world, so I'm glad people responded.
~ Lee Pace
I enjoy Augusta. I enjoy its challenges. There's no other golf course like this anywhere. Its greens and its challenges on and around the greens are just super, super tough. So the greens are fun to play in sort of a morbid way.
~ Ben Crenshaw
It's okay that you like him," Spam says. "Serial killers are really popular. They get prison married and everything.
~ Sheryl Scarborough
All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
~ Shirley Jackson
Whenever someone dies everyone says, I love that guy, except for Jeffrey Dahmer.
~ Pauly Shore
I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.
~ Christopher Paolini
In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
~ Isabella Rossellini
At dusk Pierrot found Rose sitting on a bench, facing the river. She was having morbid thoughts. She was descended from people who had come to this great land, killed off its inhabitants and settled in with their treacherous ways. Did you have a right to expect anything from God if you were white and North American ?
~ Heather O'Neill
Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.
~ Ellie Goulding
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I have a job to do. Make money for my clients. Period. But boy it gets morbid when you start making investments that work out extra great if a tragedy occurs.
~ Michael Lewis
I wanted to see as much as I could. I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it. I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was like the first time I saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward, the cadaver's head--or what there was left of it--floated up behind my eggs and bacon at breakfast... and pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadaver's head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar.
~ Sylvia Plath
But talking about it hypothetically is grim:
~ Sylvia Plath
In some warped way, having an embalmed body with us made perfect sense.
~ Tahir Shah
He's a thin-skinned, morbid, mooning little beggar, with a good deal of imagination and not much perseverance, who will expect a good deal more of life than he will find in it. That's why he won't be happy.
~ Henry James
The ass tells you everything about a woman, her character, her temperament, whether she is sanguine, morbid, gay or fickle, whether she is responsive or unresponsive, whether she is maternal or pleasure-loving, whether she is truthful or lying by nature.)
~ Henry Miller
Eu nu am fost niciodat? un ganditor.Ganditul nu te duce nic?ieri.E o am?gire.Ganditul te face morbid.
~ Henry Miller
I had kept notes during my cancer treatment, but I wasn't sure what my outcome was going to be. A part of me wasn't sure if I would make it into a book. If it was going to be morbid, I wouldn't want to tell it.
~ Manisha Koirala