Morbid Quotations

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

We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.

Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.

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

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

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

In a crazy world where he would get nominated, I'd like to see Obama run against Herman Cain. That would be fantastic. If Herman Cain became president, there'd be a certain sort of morbid curiosity for me.

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.

The best doctors and the best hospitals in America, if they cannot get the patient information they need when they need it, it can lead to morbid consequences: Higher mortality.

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

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

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

To me its kind of morbid to kind of wait for the landowners to pass away just to go and steal the land again.

I've never been as happy as I am here. It sounds strange and kind of morbid to say it, but I really love this place.

Ron Cranford is trying to make heroes out of people who have done some really evil things. The whole conference needs to be opposed. It's a morbid and sadistic thing they're promoting.

specimens of morbid anatomy ... together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed.

They were like, 'That may be better than having it show up as some kind of morbid trophy on the Internet,' ... You've got to think of the victims. That would be bad for them.

Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.

I like her mixture of morbid frankness and girlish playfulness. It's why we get along. It's not yin and yang. It's yin and yin somehow. She has, as I do, an ongoing dialogue and relationship with all the important dead people.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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 have a, shall we say, morbid personality.

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

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

No horse named Morbid ever won a race.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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

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

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