Top 196 Morbid Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.

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

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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

Don't accuse me of being morbid when I'm merely the product of a culture that buries the bones of the ones they love in pretty, manicured flower gardens so they can keep them nearby and go talk to them whenever they feel troubled or depressed. That's morbid. Not to mention bizarre. Dogs bury bones, too.

'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

Wherever I go, people complain about what they see on television. Yet, if you are lapping this up because it's random entertainment or from morbid fascination, you are enablers.

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

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

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.

It seems whenever I've had a method or what I perceived to be an intellectual groundwork of some sort - a kind of game plan - it's always been the most morbid failure.

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.

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

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

We love the juxtaposition of something saccharine with something morbid.

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

Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

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

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

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

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

Morbid humor is very valid, even healthy, as long as you don't do it gratuitously.

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

Ever since childhood, when I found out that the ultimate fate for all humans was death, sheer terror and morbid curiosity had been fighting for supremacy in my mind.

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

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

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

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

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.

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.

It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

It's true that what is morbid is highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony.

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

Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a more cheerful world if there were no Dylan records in it. But Dylan and his audience mirror each other, and deserve each other; as Marx said, a morbid society creates its own morbid grave-diggers.

I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

There are definitions of morbid obesity. Doctors define it.

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

My favorite shirt to sleep in is the one my birth mom was wearing when she died in my arms. Morbid for some perhaps but comforting to me.

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.

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

I love graveyards. To some, it might sound morbid, but there's nothing dark about the natural cycles of life, really.

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

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

Pakistan tries mentally challenged girl of blasphemy against the Holy Book. India arrests kids for posts on Facebook. Morbid competition?

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

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

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

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

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