Morbid Quotes

• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Inspirational, Sorry, Apology

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.113, University of Illinois Press

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• I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Persons

  "Daniel Radcliffe on Set Interview Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 05, 2010.

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• We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

  Billy Graham

  Needs, May, Facts

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• Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges

  Walter Scott

  Caring, Worry, Care

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• Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

  Russell Green

  Worry, Events, Anticipation

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• There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sympathy, Pain

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.51, First Avenue Editions

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• The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Cures, Egotism

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Christianity, Enough

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thomas Common (2004). “Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Dream, Emo, Writing

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.621, Simon and Schuster

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• Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Self, Names, Consciousness

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Names, Self, Ego

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.147

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• So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear. We didn't have much to say to each other, the ones that left and the ones that stayed. Children get shamed by fear but you can't tell the adults that; they don't care. They make children into dead things like they are. If there's something left alive in you, you run. You run from the poor little child on her knees; fear burned the skin off all right; she's still on her knees, dead and raw and tender.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Running, Children, Differences

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• There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Heart, Dark

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• The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Knowledge And Power, Diversity, Dying

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• Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

  Henry Lindlahr

  Peculiar, Disease, Bacteria

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• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Reality, Brain

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.49, Google Publishing

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• It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Xmas, Children, Believe

  "Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter S. Thompson, www.rollingstone.com. January 23, 1992.

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• [Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

  Ernest Hemingway

  Horse, Giving Up, Race

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• I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

  Diane Abbott

  Christmas, Dog, Postman

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a morbid consciousness, quite unlike that normal consciousness accompanying right actions spontaneously done; and from a state of unstable equilibrium long maintained by effort, there is apt to be a fall towards stable equilibrium, in which the primitive nature reasserts itself. Retrogression rather than progression may hence result.

  Herbert Spencer

  Fall, Self, Long

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, (Ch. 10), 1897.

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• One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Writing, Race

  Letter to "Weird Tales" editor Edwin Baird, printed in "Weird Tales" 3, no. 3 (March 1924); Quoted in "Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 122), 2000.

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• It is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future; but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Dream, Men, Gambling

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• Touch-me-notism that disfigures the present day Hinduism is a morbid growth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, Hinduism, Touch Me

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Fate, Eragon

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.2145, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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