Poison Quotes - Page 24

• With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

  Saul Bellow

  Sadness, Solitary Life, Long

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• The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Cutting, Men, Glowing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

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• Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Victory, Gold, Empires

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.2, NYU Press

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• You cannot poison what is between us with your foul words. She is my light in the darkness and Johnny is my pathway ahead.

  Juliet Marillier

  Light, Darkness, Pathways

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.471, Macmillan

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• ...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Heart, Secret

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.457, Penguin

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• one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Eye, Infection

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• That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sweet, Lying, Fool

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.133, Penguin

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• Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and cut and drink because you need an anesthetic and it works. For awhile. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's to late because you are maintaining it now,straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Soul, Needs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.124, Penguin

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• You are the drop,and the ocean you are kindness,you are anger, you are sweetness,you are poison. Do not make me more disheartened. you are the chamber of the sun, you are the abode of venus, you are the garden of all hope. Oh, Beloved, let me enter.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Ocean, Garden

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• Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Adults, Vessel

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 7, 2010.

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• ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Men, Soul

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.840

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• The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.

  Christopher Paolini

  Raisins, Tarts

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1003, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

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• I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.

  Gayle Forman

  Air, Water, Leaving

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Dec 07, 2015

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• Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Impulse

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• There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.133, Insight Publications

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• One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Life Is Short, Order

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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• THE POISON TREE I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I water'd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears; And I sunned it with my smiles And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright; And my foe beheld it shine, And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the night had veil'd the pole: In the morning glad I see My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Garden

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Poison Tree'

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• For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. To work her, plow her under, rain down a dreadful poison upon her. Miraculously, it causes these girls to grow. They elongate on the pale slender stalks of their longing, like sunflowers with heavy heads. You can shield them with your body and soul, trying to absorb that awful rain, but they'll still move toward him. Without cease they'll bend to his light.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Girl, Daughter, Father

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.162, Faber & Faber

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• I'm a hacker!" Cadel protested. "I don't poison people! I don't blow them up!

  Catherine Jinks

  Blow, People, Hackers

  Catherine Jinks (2008). “Evil Genius”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

  Graham Greene

  Insecurity, Twists, Lovers

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• War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

  James Jones

  Dog, War, Men

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• Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

  David Gemmell

  Thinking, Survival, Mind

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• Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or..." "Or we'll die?" I guessed. "Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes." "Let's avoid the swords," I decided.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Wells, Grover

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• Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

  Henry Adams

  Power, Political, President

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