Top 38 Quotes About Morbidity
#1. The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
Rollo May
#2. To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote 'King Lear.
Oscar Wilde
#3. I wanted to inflict exquisite agonies upon Aunt Patience; and had I been informed that a few weeks later, I would serve her the deepest cut imaginable, I am not certain that I would not have smiled. Morbidity
Lyndsay Faye
#4. It seemed ironic to her that women were considered far too meek for the morbidity of war, and yet a child could give their life in a battle they did not even understand.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#5. Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.
Lois Capps
#6. Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#7. The love of money as a possession ... will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
John Maynard Keynes
#8. For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
Esther Duflo
#9. There were nauseous musical instruments, stringed, grass, and wood-wind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness ...
H.P. Lovecraft
#10. I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.
Lori Lansens
#11. I was thinking of the word Surrealistic ... I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away.
Eva Fuka
#12. The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.
Colin Wilson
#13. Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
Brian Sibley
#15. We must not concentrate overmuch upon our feelings. Do not spend too much time feeling your own pulse taking your own spiritual temperature, do not spend too much time analyzing your feelings. That is the high road to morbidity.
Martyn
#16. You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
Dean Koontz
#17. It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.
Maya Deren
#18. In the tropical and subtropical regions, endemic malaria takes first place almost everywhere among the causes of morbidity and mortality, and it constitutes the principal obstacle to the acclimatization of Europeans in these regions.
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
#19. For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity.
Oscar Wilde
#22. What we should care about is health - reduction of morbidity and mortality. Too often, we instead pay attention to whether something is 'normal.' A hospital may spend several million dollars separating a pair of conjoined twins, even though that separation is likely to leave them worse off.
Alice Dreger
#23. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. Indigenous humans have always been sane because they have always been mystic. They permit the twilight.
G.K. Chesterton
#24. There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
Oscar Wilde
#25. We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
David R. Brower
#27. Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Anne Perry
#28. I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic as the coins they seek.
Selwyn Hughes
#29. When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.
Roland Barthes
#30. I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off in a hotel room, you can buy three albums and then they're there. It's kind of strange to have a relationship with that.
Simon Taylor-Davis
#31. Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc.
Roy Batty
#32. A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
Dallas Willard
#33. All children are morbid: it's their one saving grace.
Truman Capote
#34. Now and then, I remember you in times
Unbelievable. And in places not made for memory
But for the transient, the passing that does not remain.
Yehuda Amichai
#35. I was three-quarters down the list of guys I would be facing in my first game when I realized I was looking at our own roster.
Glenn Healy
#36. The Sky was red, but not warm red of a sunset. This was an angry, glowering red, the colour of an infected wound.
Neil Gaiman
#37. A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.
Plutarch
#38. His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.
Sylvia Day
