Poisoned Quotes

#1. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, poisoned in the bushes,
blown out on the trail; hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn,
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm."

Bob Dylan

#2. Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevitable dissolution would have poisoned other and greater minds.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. All heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.

Martin Luther

#5. Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

Matthew Henry

#6. A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.

Peter O'Toole

#7. Nowhere was good. Except with Eric. He had both perfumed and poisoned her entire world.

Maureen Johnson

#8. (Hadrian Blackwater while poisoned) Gill the fish ... rest is best ... time is now ... it feels so good to ...

Michael J. Sullivan

#9. The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.

Oscar Wilde

#10. If you can look at somebody and say, 'I never loved you, you were a mistake,' that's one thing. But if you look at him and say, 'You were everything and I poisoned it because I wouldn't stand up for myself,' that's hard. That's too hard ...

Jennifer Crusie

#11. I am the Mother's blade, the Mother's wrath ... You have poisoned her, raped her and her children. Left her to die. Now you will suffer, you will die.

R.S. Belcher

#12. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Winston Churchill

#13. his tongue had always been a stiletto razor, finely-honed, covered with poisoned rust and with a life of its own.

Elias Anderson

#14. Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Seanan McGuire

#15. Men love a prop so well, that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear; and such was he, the impostor, who, with fear of hell for his scourge, most ravenous wolf, played the driver to a credulous flock.

Mary Shelley

#16. Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Cleopatra

#17. Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart
Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.

Sophocles

#18. One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively than any modern day bioterrorist could have ever dreamed of doing.

Steven Johnson

#19. But these lands, though poisoned, were not entirely dead.

Stephen King

#20. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

Carl Jung

#21. Nobody stops to think about the world anymore. We live in a world where they make
children pay to see the fish eat. Nowadays even fish are exploited, she thought. Exploited, and then poisoned. The ocean out there is filling up with poison. The fish will die too

Julian Barnes

#22. I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

Henry Miller

#23. every dream she had ever had, like delicious fruits, and then left her alone to discover that every one was poisoned.

Sabrina Philips

#24. What would be the point of being personally whole in a dismembered society, or personally healthy in a land scalped, eroded and poisoned, or personally free in a world entirely controlled by the government or enlightened by television?

Wendell Berry

#25. She was real to me. And while I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul. She has poisoned the very core of me. A dream has killed me

Iain S. Thomas

#26. We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.

Robert Redford

#27. Aww, you know my verbal stingers are only poisoned with love

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#28. When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Herbert Hoover

#29. He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#30. Fatal North was being poisoned to death aboard his own vessel and by someone from his hand-picked crew ... a cold-blooded, calculating, pre-meditated murder by a diabolical killer.

Bruce Henderson

#31. Worst of all, the inner vault is guarded by a live dragon, attended by fifty naked women armed with poisoned spears, each of them sworn to die in Requin's service. All redheads.
-You're just making that up, Jean.

Scott Lynch

#32. Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.

Herman Melville

#33. You'll see a movie about someone you hate or someone you love. Will you see a movie about grandma making apple pies? No, you won't. Only if grandma has poisoned the neighbor or is suspected of poisoning the neighbor through her apple pies.

John McAfee

#34. Hope springs eternal, unfortunately it springs from a well poisoned with Jim Jones' Kool Aid

Dean Cavanagh

#35. The only thing fairytales have taught us is the slipper doesn't always fit, the kiss won't always wake you, and the prince won't always fight for you. However, one thing that rings true, the apple will ALWAYS be poisoned.

Samuel Crone

#36. When had my sister's words become so barbed and poisoned? Grief had sharpened her tongue to a fine point.

Connilyn Cossette

#37. The humans are dead (I'm glad they are dead)
The humans are dead (I noticed, they're dead)
We used poisonous gases (With traces of lead)
And we poisoned their asses (Actually, their lungs)
Binary solo!
0000001, 00000011
000000111, 00001111!

Flight Of The Conchords

#38. It took me a while to realize that I was beginning to flirt with her. The food must have been poisoned.

Justin Villanueva

#39. Princess." Puck's voice broke through my numb trance. I glared poisoned daggers at him and he gave me a weak smile. "Scary, you can rip me to pieces later. His royal iciness isn't looking so good. We have to get him to a healer, now."
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#40. Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.

Walter Lippmann

#41. [Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#42. The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.

Albert Einstein

#43. Resentment slowly poisoned my blood and I laughed at myself and my absurd hopes.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#44. Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.

Robin Hobb

#45. Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.

Big Daddy Kane

#46. Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Jean Rhys

#47. Americans are being poisoned, all in the name of profit, producing a weak-minded race of people who are given to lust and desire.

Lynn Cullen

#48. The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart.

Francis De Sales

#49. Her soul was poisoned soil in which nothing good could grow.

Laini Taylor

#50. How she poisoned her sisters so slyly and quietly that it took them days to die. How when it was over they looked so peaceful that had it not been for the froth on their lips, you would have thought they had died in their sleep.

Kendare Blake

#51. Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

Derek Jarman

#52. You are always foreboding gloomy things!" said the others. "Anything from floods to poisoned fish. Think of something cheerful!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#53. Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive ... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#54. And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Hunter S. Thompson

#55. Dear Victor: I've poisoned something in the fridge. Good luck with that.

Jenny Lawson

#56. There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom.

Friedrich Schiller

#57. She was poisoned, but the reason she was crying was that her husband didn't want her anymore.

Eula Biss

#58. He's been poisoned you daft dimbo! As for a matter of fact, I've always found him interesting."
-hermione granger(Harry potter and the half blood prince)

J.K. Rowling

#59. Those that don't know history aren't poisoned by it.

Scott Sigler

#60. I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.

David Edwards

#61. Dr. Stockmann. I have already told you that what I want to speak about
is the great discovery I have made lately
the discovery that all the
sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the hole fabric of our
civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood.

Henrik Ibsen

#62. Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.

W.C. Fields

#63. There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Ouida

#64. Achilles was murdered with a poisoned arrow, and Jason died alone, killed by his own rotting ship. Such is the fate of heroes.

Cassandra Clare

#65. Your shadow stealthily leaves nothing of where you go, like a poisoned needle that sews together my footsteps. Your light pliantly strikes the water tower, like a lightning bolt that severs the source of my life. -Soifon

Tite Kubo

#66. The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

Emily Post

#67. The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

#68. From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

Alice Hamilton

#69. O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you must burn the house! You're soldiers - you must do your duty ... O burn the house! Burn the house! Burn the house!

Edward Bond

#70. I do not remember being bitten. I wish I did, for then I would know the creature who did this to me and I would have a purpose, to track him down and repay him for the poisoned gift he gave me.

K.J. Wignall

#71. It's strange how fear works. It suddenly stands at your shoulder, and slides its arm around you. Its fist closes on your heart.

Michael Ford

#72. How many mothers have prayed to see their sons, their daughters return from war only to realize the war has kept them, the world has poisoned them, and they'll never be the same?

Pierce Brown

#73. Dr. Wyman preached a God I couldn't quite see in my mind, and certainly couldn't love. I dimly pictured some kind of Grandfather, who dealt out to bad people their awful "just deserts," which I thought must be poisoned food at the end of delicious meals.

John Hersey

#74. Truth is that we all need facts we cannot continue to eat only the food that is given to us. Sometimes we have to feed ourselves otherwise we set our self up for dependency on the wrong nutrition without realizing that we were being poisoned the whole time.

R. Lewis

#75. The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Helen Clark MacInnes

#76. A pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.

Charles Marion Russell

#77. Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#78. The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us ... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.

Saddam Hussein

#79. Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening in the world is all a symptom of our greater inability to deal with nature appropriately.

Woody Harrelson

#80. When the lights went out.
It wasn't just the lights. So many things about his physical situation changed all at once that his hindbrain couldn't keep up. It told him to be nauseated just in case he'd been poisoned. It was working with fifty-million-year-old response algorithms.

James S.A. Corey

#81. Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned, I do the poisoning. I'm the Princess of it

Kresley Cole

#82. I've tried. He doesn't want any friend but himself. He's shut himself up tight, like a beautiful flower bud being poisoned from within.

William Shakespeare

#83. WHEN IT IS DONE, WE WILL FLY FAR FROM HERE. FAR FROM THIS SCAB AND ITS POISONED SKY.
WE WILL DANCE IN THE STORMS, YOU AND I.

Jay Kristoff

#84. Poisoned, pursued and living with a psychopath. Not what I would consider the good life. Death has its perks.

Maria V. Snyder

#85. If the world is polluted, we are polluted. If the world dies, we die anyway. I don't pretend to be separate from the world. If she is poisoned, I jump in and be poisoned with her.

J. Gabriel Gates

#86. The future is what it is," said Largeman. "Your people have been poisoned with the myths of lone men turning the tide, improbable tales of heroes outrunning explosions with their feet. Such tales are forbidden here. Events are laid forth and they cannot be turned. There are no heroes, Mr. Wong.

David Wong

#87. We have been poisoned by fairy tales.

Anais Nin

#88. Things here are so different. Poisoned rivers, softened stone. You never know exactly what you're getting into. What will hold and what will give way

Ally Condie

#89. A country that tolerates evil means- evil manners, standards of ethics-for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.

Sinclair Lewis

#90. That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Michael Baden

#91. I think that the times that I have to go into the woods at night have poisoned me. I

Jennifer Lynch

#92. No, love. You're the only one who has caused me to do the oddest things. You have truly poisoned me.

Maria V. Snyder

#93. He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled.
Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of.

Richard S. Prather

#94. Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

Eric Betzig

#95. They weren't in a coffee shop, trading beliefs and ideas over scones. They were in a Jeep that had been shot up, hiding from people who'd been poisoned by an ancient evil.

Justin R. Macumber

#96. Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent Mother in whose womb we live is mindlessly poisoned and raped. Surely, our insane denial has to be perceived and acted upon.

Marion Woodman

#97. The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#98. Nostalgia, it's nothing but pain," Robert said. "It's memory poisoned by the anguish of loss.

Laird Barron

#99. When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Stephen King

#100. We've poisoned our planet to a desperate degree. We have no idea of how severe the toxification is.

Benjamin Creme