#poison

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#appetites #beasts #brutes #destruction #find

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

New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#devils #goals #poison #spirit #experience

Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or..." "Or we'll die?" I guessed. "Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes." "Let's avoid the swords," I decided. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #poison #shrivel #swords #humor

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#forgetfulness #humor #poison #unhappiness #humor

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

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

#solitude #soul #men

all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#murder #poison #men

Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you. ↗

— Cleopatra

#been #could #fool #had #hundred

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you. ↗

— William Empson

#heart #poison #pumps #yet #you