Morbid Quotes
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"Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die.."
"It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull."
"I’m fine, Mom. Thanks for asking.”...“Of course you’re fine.” She keeps walking. “You’re the devil’s bride and these are his creatures.”...“I’m not the devil’s bride.” “He carried you out of the fire and is letting you visit us from the dead. Who else would have those privileges except his bride?"
"There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism."
"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
"Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she'd been on. The last PROPER date. Did fighting side by side with Saracen Rue count as a date? They ended up snuggling under the moonlight, drenched in gore and pieces of brain - so it had PROBABLY been a date. If it wasn't, it was certainly a fun time had by all. Well, not ALL. But she and Saracen had sure had a blast."
"Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people."
Rebecca McNutt, Restless Souls and Shallow Graves: A Short Story
"Beware of those who are bored and not passionate about life, for they will bore you with reasons for not living."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"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."
"Relationships must be fostered as far as possible and maintained, and thus a morbid transference can be avoided."
"Directing a funeral isn’t about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead."
Rebecca McNutt, Restless Souls and Shallow Graves: A Short Story
"What is living? Forging memories. What is dying? Forgetting them.I never die."
"If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed."
E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan
"And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay"
"That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump."
"DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG"
"The only time you were safe was when you were dead."
"I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile."
"I can't stop thinking about what Caroline said to Minna about death. It isn't an infection, she said. She might be right. Then again, we've nested in the walls like bacteria. We've taken over the house, its insulation and its plumbing - we've made it our own. Or maybe it's life that's the infection: a feverish dream, a hallucination of feelings. Death is purification, a cleaning, a cure."
"They'll torture you for months before killing you if you run" Otis shrugged, as if this was an everyday occurrence."
"Honestly, I'd rather be anywhere else. Even home, where my dad begins almost every conversation with, "You should lose the black clothes and wear something with color." Puh-lease. Like I want to look like every Barbie clone in Hell High, a.k.a. Oklahoma's insignificant Haloway High School. Ironically, Dad doesn't appreciate the bright blue streaks in my originally blond/now-dyed-black hair. Go figure. That's color, right?"
"There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life."
"What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead."
"Being me is a job — is labour so time-consuming and expensive that I have to have a second job just to support it. So that I can drink, I have to get drink and that isn’t something people give away and then there’s drink that I need because I have drunk and the other drink I have to keep around because, sooner or later, I will drink it. That’s a full-time occupation: that’s like being a miner, or a nurse."
"The ship told you the guilty systems recognizes no innocents. I'd say it does. It recognizes the innocence... only to violate it."