#poisonous

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#bright #flowers #i #i believe #moral

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#even #harmless #impulses #most #poisonous

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#german #history #ideas #intellectual #intellectual life

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

'So this is it' he thought. After everything he had been through, after all the mysteries and fighting and fleeting moments of hope, they were just going to kill him with some sort of poison gas? Stupid, that was what this was. Stupid. He had battled Grievers and Cranks, survived a gunshot and infection. WICKED. They were the ones who'd saved him. And now they were just going to gas him to death? ↗

— Josh Dashner The Scorch Trials

#pointless-death #poisonous-gas #wicked #death

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. ↗

— Richard Harris

#away #brought #cocoon #completely #custom

Most haters are stuck in a poisonous mental prison of jealousy and self-doubt that blinds them to their own potentiality. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#jealousy #poisonous #potential #self-doubt #experience