Top 100 Quotes About Poisons
#1. Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.
Ronnie Wood
#2. Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?
Richard Russo
#3. Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#4. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
Janet Fitch
#5. Thank you for your bounty, Oleander, Prince of Poisons, I think. Thank you for all that Mr. Pratt has already received, and all that my father is receiving still, as the poison twists like bramble in his gut, burns within his brain, presses like a boulder upon his heart.
Maryrose Wood
#6. The touch of evil poisons by the idea of it. Reject the idea, and you've rejected the evil
Robin McKinley
#7. The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!
Pearl S. Buck
#8. Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
Michel De Montaigne
#9. Love is fatal; a snake that slithers into your life, poisons you with its venom and then leaves you there to die.
Callie Anderson
#10. Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#11. I wish people would call poisons poison. I don't mind people smoking marijuana, but they should admit it's a poison, and coffee's a poison, but the Americans lie so.
James Purdy
#12. Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Peter Latham
#13. They warned of taints lingering from the Builders' war, stains from their poisons, or shadows from the Day of a Thousand Suns.
Mark Lawrence
#14. Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey.
Ovid
#15. Resentment, anger, jealousy, pain, hurt, and depression are poisons that you drink but expect someone else to die. Life does not work that way. Most people take lifetimes to understand this simple truth.
Sadhguru
#16. Trust is the most insidious of poisons. Trust sidesteps all of your precautions.
Mark Lawrence
#17. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgment.
Robin Hobb
#18. There are millions of ways for people to die, if you number each vital organ, each ways it can fail, all the poisons from the earth and the sea which can cause these failures.
Steven Brust
#19. As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.
Mason Cooley
#20. His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.
Craig Stone
#21. Refuse the anxiety. When you borrow trouble against what might be, you neglect the moment you have now to enjoy. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.' Berandol's
Robin Hobb
#22. What are our lungs supposed to do?" I shouted. Shouted: "If they breathe fast they suffocate themselves from inner poisons; if they breathe slowly they suffocate from unbreathable air, from outraged things. But if they try to search for their own rhythm they perish from the mere search.
Franz Kafka
#23. Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out.
Tiberius
#24. Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms
#26. THE SELF IS THE ROOT of the mental poisons. Our mind fabricates, projects, and attaches concepts to people and things. Egocentric fixation reinforces the qualities or defects that we attribute to others. From
Dalai Lama XIV
#27. Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
D.H. Lawrence
#28. Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
Havelock Ellis
#29. When we hold it (amber) in our hands, we hold also that furious epoch where rioted all monsters and poisons, where death fecundated and life destroyed, where superabundance demanded such existences, no souls, but fiercest animal fire - just for that I hate it!
Harriet Prescott Spofford
#30. Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller.
William Shakespeare
#31. Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?
Don Kates
#32. Nature is unselfish," she says. "It only wishes to survive. Humanity inflicts harm on it, digs up the earth, poisons the waters, harnesses rock and metal and stone for its own purposes. We are the protectors. We are the connection between humanity and nature. Nature is always searching for balance.
Amy Ewing
#33. The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
Charles Caleb Colton
#34. It's one thing to face great odds, but even the smallest struggle, if undertaken without hope, looms and swells with the fatal poisons of despair.
K.W. Jeter
#35. All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
Paracelsus
#36. Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#37. We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.
Jasmine Guinness
#38. Part of the success of the tobacco industry in purveying this brew of addictive poisons can be attributed to widespread unfamiliarity with baloney detection, critical thinking, and the scientific method. Gullibility kills.
Carl Sagan
#39. There's an unwritten law of the universe which assures that the thing you seek will always be found in the last place you look. It applies to everything in life from lost socks to misplaced poisons ...
Alan Bradley
#40. There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
August Strindberg
#42. Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?
Jane Goodall
#43. I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through
poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap
money unhappiness.
$10,000 a Year, Easy
Kurt Vonnegut
#44. Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us.
Pope Francis
#45. But his days were shortened by poison, perhaps the most incurable of poisons; the stings of remorse and despair, and the bitter remembrance of lost glory.
Edward Gibbon
#47. Once taken by her, you glowed
And you drank her poisons, content.
Because all the stars seemed to grow,
And fields had a different scent,
Autumn fields.
Anna Akhmatova
#48. Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called insecticides, but biocides.
Rachel Carson
#49. One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons.
John Robbins
#50. If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or make him chary.
Toba Beta
#51. Just as the purpose of the liver is to act as a sump for the poisons of the body, the soul has its organs for containing and isolating the toxic discharge of human suffering.
Paul Hoffman
#52. A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
John Cowper Powys
#53. [ ... ] I'm going to have to be systematic about experimental eating so I know exactly what fatally poisons me.
Andrea K. Host
#54. Opposites are joined at the hip. Night and day, poisons and pleasures, innovation and destruction are usually different facets of the very same thing. [...] Opposites work together in the very opposite of the way they seem - not tearing each other to bits or threatening to annihilate each other.
Howard Bloom
#55. I don't have many rules to live by," he'd said. "But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles
drug or tattoo
and ... no inessential penises either.
Laini Taylor
#56. A duke's son MUST know about poisons. It's the way of our times.
Frank Herbert
#58. War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
Aberjhani
#59. The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons.
Cornelia Funke
#60. Poison shared is poison halved. Or maybe it just poisons everyone equally.
Lauren Beukes
#61. For those at home, as well as for those in battle, war is curiously disabling. The mere realization that one's country is at war poisons the bloodstream, creates an incessant mood of worry that infiltrates even the most casual moments.
Roger Rosenblatt
#62. There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
#63. Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.
Rajneesh
#64. Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons
throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
Carson McCullers
#65. There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them.
Michel De Montaigne
#66. Today it is busy and decked with finery. It is packed to purpose with poisons and poisoners. If a house could smile, Greavesdrake would be grinning.
Kendare Blake
#67. Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury and other poisons that cause chemical brain drain. The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale may be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.
Philippe Grandjean
#68. The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.
Robin Hobb
#69. The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
William Shakespeare
#70. It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.
Sebastian Barry
#71. Rumor has it that female spies and assassins have used specialized dehydrated poisons, concealed in their compacts, to eliminate their enemies.
Terry Schappert
#72. It's only by becoming familiar with poisons that you can make the best antidotes.
Aprilynne Pike
#73. What you're suggesting is that Hezekiah's elixir caused epigenetic changes. Such changes can and do get passed down the generations. Environmental poisons are the leading cause of epigenetic changes.
Douglas Preston
#74. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.
Charles Buxton
#75. Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#76. Hating people is like a poisoned apple.
The more you hated them , the faster the poisons spread.
Hihi
#77. Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.
Billy Graham
#78. You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.
Martha Stewart
#79. Unbalanced power poisons introspection. In its vacated space lay living society's imperative questions, unseen, unphrased, unasked, unanswered.
Randall Robinson
#80. Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.
Suzy Kassem
#81. I know what that does to a man, to walk the earth with the burden of his sin on his back. It poisons all he touches.
Lori Benton
#83. A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.
Philip Roth
#84. Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
Orison Swett Marden
#85. The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#86. Tears released poisons from inside, poisons which if not released could be as deadly as the real kind. The
Tom Clancy
#87. Don't hate anyone," Beata said quietly. "It's too much work. And it only poisons you.
Danielle Steel
#88. The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
Arthur Rimbaud
#89. Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
#90. I could never accept
life as it was,
I could never gobble
down all its
poisons
bu there were parts,
tenuous magic parts
open for the
asking.
Charles Bukowski
#91. For heaven's sake, Wade, you sound as if it involved capes and daggers and poisons. Take out one of your dreams and dust it off and send it to Miss Harper to work on. Goodness knows you have enough of them lurking in that aweful brain of yours.
Rachel Heffington
#92. The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.
Eric Hoffer
#93. Theology is to religion what poisons are to food
Voltaire
#94. Scotty leaned across the table and whispered in a voice Travis wasn't supposed to have heard but did. "We've got to do something quick before Uncle Travis poisons us
Debbie Macomber
#95. Letting go is to love yourself enough to look at the past with a different perspective. It is to accept that you can't change the past, but that you can change whether your perspective poisons or nourishes you.
Steve Maraboli
#96. Much to be preferred to boxing are fencing and revolver-practice, judo and study of poisons.
Robert Aickman
#97. I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.
Dennis Potter
#98. Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
Veronica Roth
#100. Of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood; arrows could be seen at a distance. Poisons were detected in the end and avoided. But the word managed to destroy without leaving clues.
Paulo Coelho
