Slow Poison Quotes

#1. If you're always scared of dying," Obispo had said, "you'll surely die. Fear's a poison; and not such a slow poison either.

Aldous Huxley

#2. A kind heart is like a slow poison for a warrior.

Sandeep Sharma

#3. Because spite could be a slow poison to the heart. If there was a lesson to be learned from Hattie, it was that forgiveness was a blessing. It would be a hard, stubborn thing to harbor ill feelings forever, even toward those who deserved it...

Jessica Lawson

#4. Beware of the love of women; beware of that ecstasy - that slow poison.

Ivan Turgenev

#5. The city may have chosen to ignore the ugly growth of Dharavi, but a cancer cannot be stopped simply by being declared illegal. It still kills with its slow poison.

Vikas Swarup

#6. That slow poison [slavery] is daily contaminating the minds and morals of our people. Every gentlemen here is born a petty tyrant, practiced in acts of despotism and cruelty.

George Mason

#7. Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

Humphry Davy

#8. DISAPPOINTMENT IS A SLOW POISON.

Richard K. Morgan

#9. It's slow poison; you make them believe it's real, and it keeps them coming back for more.

Tarryn Fisher

#10. Maybe - just maybe - going through the small-minded, scared, angry, petty Abbott era is the antidote we needed to combat the slow poison of decades of public apathy about politics.

Andrew P. Street

#11. I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.

Lloyd Alexander

#12. Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

Laurence Overmire

#13. Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind ... Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

David Gemmell

#14. She had now no inclination to trouble Gibbie's heart with what men call the plan of salvation. It was enough to her to find that he followed her Master. Being in the light she understood the light, and had no need of system, either true or false, to explain it to her.

George MacDonald

#15. Often, we find ourselves wedged in the middle of a draining conversation. We might desperately want to dislodge ourselves from the interaction, but instead we stay in receiving mode, absorbing their words like a slow-acting poison.

Michaela Chung

#16. What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography?

John Szarkowski

#17. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.

Danger Mouse

#18. You don't have to pay more to have a great form.

Jil Sander

#19. Drunkenness - that fierce rage for the slow, sure poison, that oversteps every other consideration; that casts aside wife, children, friends, happiness, and station; and hurries its victims madly on to degradation and death.

Charles Dickens

#20. You smoke?"
"Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?

Richard K. Morgan

#21. Dead. The words fall from my tongue and linger there like poison. A slow death hanging from my lips. I shake the thought away and swallow but I can still taste the remnants in the back of my throat. It's sour and I gag a little as tears swell behind my eyes.

Celia Mcmahon

#22. She's poison of the worst kind, a slow disease that eats the heart and rapes the soul.

C.M. Stunich

#23. State I call it where all drink poison, the good and the wicked; state, where all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; state, where the slow suicide of all is called life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. If Verity's sins were knives, quick and vicious, then Prosperity's were poison. Slow, insidious, but just as deadly.

Victoria Schwab

#25. Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing ... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do.

Elizabeth Mitchell

#26. "State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life."

Friedrich Nietzsche

#27. He was a different kind of poison. The slow, scorching, addictive kind.

Alexia Purdy

#28. I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.

Anais Nin