Morbid Quotes

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

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

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

The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for them, may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena.

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

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

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

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

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

When Cromwell instructed his portraitist to paint him 'warts and all', he meant both halves of that equation. To teach the warts alone is morbid and unhealthy.

It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process. I've written a series of mermaid poems in the last few years. The first one was called "The Straightforward Mermaid" which arose from my delight in that word combination. After that, I decided that future mermaid poems would have to be words ending in "d" or "t," which led to "The Deadbeat Mermaid," "The Morbid Mermaid" and so forth . . .

I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

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

Is it just me or does the fact that you live in the same building you were abducted into seem a bit morbid?" "Pffft. It’s just you," I said, discounting the entire bizarre ghoulish thing.

What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.