#poison

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#bread #death #end #forbidden #like

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#panacea #poison #power #synthesis #tonic

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#bad #denigrate #emotionally #enjoy #fill

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#before #began #civilization #effects #especially

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#beat #begins #fails #finish #first

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#mention #poisoning #snake #snakes #talk

I think that testosterone is a rare poison. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#i think #poison #rare #testosterone #think

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#become #energy #laughter #might #negative

Heat prickled my cheeks. My palms went clammy. Love is a lot like food poisoning. ↗

— Suzanne Supplee

#clammy #food-poisoning #love #food

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies. ↗

— Robert Trout

#foreign #introduced #many #opium #poison