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Quotes About Morbid

Men of uncommon intellect , who have grown morbid, possess this occasional power of mighty effort, into which they throw the life of many days, and then are lifeless for as many more.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
~ Carolyn See
I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
~ Kirk Hammett
Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for suicides there is an additional five percent. Now that you are dead you are much in demand.
~ Kobo Abe
Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.
~ Koushun Takami
Swallows were favorites of mine, swooping on the water, tails spread in their graceful arc. Plus, they were lucky. They represented a happy home . . . and, if you were feeling morbid, the soul of someone who died.
~ Kristan Higgins
To look into the eyes of a cannibal. I turn away at the thought.
~ Carol Birch
Maigret had often tried to get other people, including men of experience, to admit that those who fall, especially those who have a morbid determination to descend ever lower, are almost always idealists.
~ Georges Simenon
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
~ Russell Green
People like murder, Peabody. They jive on it when it's got at least one of those degrees of separation. Reading about it, watching vids about it, turning on the evening news to hear about it. As long as it isn't too close.
~ J.D. Robb
The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they're so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.
~ Pete Doherty
How can he eat at a time like this?" she asked Tubelight. The operative shrugged. "One time, Boss ate a chicken frankie after watching a hanging
~ Tarquin Hall
Perhaps it existed only to stand in contrast with the whole nature, as if to say, We were here. Alex wasn't sure if the thought was morbid or inspiring.
~ Christopher Paolini
Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead.
~ Laini Taylor
I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.
~ Cassandra Clare
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
He had to say that the thing he found most attractive about her was that she had tried to kill herself. Now that was interesting-- sexy, almost, in a morbid kind of way.
~ Nick Hornby
I stopped drinking so much, I stopped listening to song lyrics with quite the same morbid fascination (for a while, I regarded just about any song in which somebody had lost somebody else as spookily relevant, which, as that covers the whole of pop music, and as I worked in a record shop, meant I felt pretty spooked more or less the whole time)
~ Nick Hornby
Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.
~ Nikola Tesla
Whenever I can't sleep, I like to lie in the darkness and pretend I've been assassinated. I've found this is the best way to get comfortable. I imagine I'm in the coffin at my funeral, and people from my past are walking by my corpse and making comments about my demise.
~ Chuck Klosterman
My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what you'd call choosy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I look like shit, dead. I look like dead shit.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
All this talk of necromancy was just a morbid veil drawn over the filthy truth of the matter. Poor Elise! Stuck with a broken-down husband, who knew no better way to please than to give her over to an Englishman for an occasional pleasuring. Of all things, an Englishman! As if the English knew anything about making love. (Haeckel's Tale)
~ Clive Barker
And I really loved sculpting. My brother and I would do full human figures with clay and Plasticine—liver, intestines, the heart—fill them with ketchup and throw them from the roof. So I was an artistic but very morbid kid.
~ Guillermo del Toro