#poison

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

#driven #help #him #his #needs

There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning. ↗

— William Scranton

#injuries #necessarily #people #poisoning #radiation

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today. ↗

— Hal Stratton

#deaths #each #greater #number #poisoning

It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#difference #drip #events #fed #fight

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#convince #damage #done #far #far less

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path. ↗

— Gary Snyder

#spirituality #suffering #life

Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#giving #gratitude #life #love #poison

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#holidays #humor #poison #humor

Besides,love is only a feeling. ↗

— Christina Westover

#literary-quote #love #mainstream-fiction #poisoning-sylvie #psychology

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while— ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#death #love #poison #weed #death