Corrosive Quotes

#1. When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

Susan L. Taylor

#2. ... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.

Jeremy Paxman

#3. Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

Pliny The Elder

#4. In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.

Caitlin Flanagan

#5. The clearest thing about a dangerous road is that you evidently understand how childish, how dull, how stagnant and how corrosive the easy road is! To gleam glamorously, chose the dangerous roads!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug.

Caroline Knapp

#7. Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Edward Norton

#8. Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.

Fredrik Backman

#9. Where something even deeper than the marrow knows that the cost of avoiding what one fears is even greater than the actual object of that fear and so the fear itself is even more corrosive even more destructive than all the frightening potential of the thing that arouses it.

Joe Henry

#10. By the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.

Michelle Au

#11. The drive for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [ ... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.

John Blofeld

#13. We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice ... living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

Mark Batterson

#14. Thus to forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, that greatest good, communal harmony that enhances the humanity and personhood of all in the community.

Desmond Tutu

#15. In the words of then - vice president Richard Nixon, the increasing crime rate "can be traced directly to the spread of the corrosive doctrine that every citizen possesses an inherent right to decide for himself which laws to obey and when to disobey them."37

Michelle Alexander

#16. I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.

Hugh Laurie

#17. Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

David L. Cohn

#18. Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life.

Charles Stross

#19. Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Eugenio Montale

#20. Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Ralph Steadman

#21. Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

Wayne Muller

#22. The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.

Donna Tartt

#23. A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

E. O. Wilson

#24. Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Philip Pullman

#25. Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century.

James Victore

#26. To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Denise Mina

#27. As I see the world, there's one element that's even more corrosive than missionaries: tourists. It's not that I feel above them in any way, but that the very places they patronize are destroyed by their affection.

Tahir Shah

#28. Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.

Simon Mawer

#29. Money is the most corrosive aspect of life today because it means that all attention to detail is forgotten.

Roberto Cavalli

#30. There is nothing more corrosive to character than money.

Helen Simonson

#31. I needed cutting now the way a diabetic needs insulin. It was a bulwark, steady and unyielding, I could throw up against the insidious, corrosive lapping of a whispering sea of uneasiness.

Caroline Kettlewell

#32. I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

Sylvia Plath

#33. Note to clients, quicklime is a preservative, not a corrosive.

Kelley Armstrong

#34. It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

William J. Brennan

#35. Her [Albertine's] intense and velvety gaze fastened itself, glued itself to the passer-by, so adhesive, so corrosive, that you felt that, in withdrawing, it must tear away the skin.

Marcel Proust

#36. Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.

Richard Dawkins

#37. We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever beyond criticism. No matter how many hours you spend to render something flawless, somebody will always be able to find fault with it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#38. We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful.

Ruth Ozeki

#39. Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Liu Xiaobo

#40. I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences.

Michael Crichton

#41. Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was.

Christopher Paolini

#42. Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within.

Tony Judt

#43. Don't repress your needs and feelings. They fester, becoming corrosive and destructive in your relationships. In a calm, loving way, tell the people in your life what you need. Don't expect people to read your mind. It only leads to disappointment and frustration. Empower them to empower you!

Jillian Michaels

#44. Hungarian Language - savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura ... words of nectar and cyanide.

Emile M. Cioran

#45. Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#46. Built to be lonely
to love the absent.
Find me
Free me
from this
corrosive doubt
futile despair
horror in repose.
I can fill my space
fill my time
but nothing can fill this void in my heart.

Sarah Kane

#47. Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

Charlton Heston

#48. I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

Robert Charles Wilson

#49. One of the most corrosive aspects of the criminal justice system is its toleration of the insanity defense...Legitimate in some few cases, the insanity defense has been rendered farcical through its manipulation by so-called experts.

Robert K. Tanenbaum

#50. Of all the deprivations which afflict humankind, none is more dreadful than loneliness. A corrosive, it eats the heart out. People were meant to live by twos, with someone close with whom to share good and bad, to hear breathing in the dark room at night. Being alone is the one unnatural act.

Zelda Popkin

#51. And the first till last alshemist wrote over every square inch of the only foolscap available, his own body, till by its corrosive sublimation one continuous present tense integument slowly unfolded all marryvoising moodmoulded cyclewheeling history ...

James Joyce

#52. Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Ellen Willis

#53. It was a night replaying its corrosive recurrence on the road of our lives, on the road which was hungry for great transformations.

Ben Okri

#54. Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.

Carl Sagan

#55. He could taste the familiar tang of museum air - an arid, deionized essence that carried a faint hint of carbon - the product of industrial, coal-filter dehumidifiers that ran around the clock to counteract the corrosive carbon dioxide exhaled by visitors.

Dan Brown

#56. I have a deep-seated skepticism about the morality of violence. Violence is almost always morally corrosive.

Michael Hastings

#57. Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.

Trent Lott

#58. Don't drink fluoridated water ... Fluoride is a corrosive poison which will produce harm on a long term basis.

Charles Bernhard Heyd

#59. Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.

Rob Thurman

#60. For perhaps the first time in my life I appreciated the corrosive effects of total uncertainty.

John D. MacDonald

#61. Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

Alfred Jarry

#62. "I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.

Charles Bernhard Heyd

#63. They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

#64. But some mistakes can never be righted and the guilt eats away at the soul. Of all the emotions we have, I have learnt that guilt is the most corrosive. Anger passes quickly, and hatred mellows with age and learning, but guilt endures.

Danny Scheinmann

#65. Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

James P. Hoffa

#66. Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

Gary Hamel

#67. I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

Maya Angelou

#68. Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

William Shakespeare

#69. The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had.

Ian McEwan

#70. If life and youth were not immune to the corrosive effects of time, why should love be any different?

Jill Archer

#71. Antonia was very conscious of the corrosive power of envy and felt that it was this emotion, more than any other, which lay behind human unhappiness. People did not realise how widespread envy was.

Alexander McCall Smith

#72. Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.

Frank Prochaska

#73. Do not keep secrets - except in your fiction, where their corrosive influence and dark gravity make for high drama.

Donald Maass

#74. The liquid state of modernity is corrosive to continuity.

Samuel Wilson

#75. She hates to disappoint him. She fears the slow, corrosive trickle of reality into his adulation.

Maggie Shipstead

#76. We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.

David Boies

#77. Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

James Cook

#78. Either way, the vulnerable human ego is protected. Protected from the corrupting influence of praise. Protected from the corrosive effects of shame.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#79. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

John Banville

#80. My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?

Ricardo Sanchez

#81. That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#82. The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Brandi Carlile

#83. There's nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.

Paula Hawkins

#84. To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

Desmond Tutu

#85. It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are.

David Foster Wallace

#86. The only antidote for the corrosive poison of violence is finding peace within yourself.

Christopher Paolini