Morbidity Quotes:

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Morbidity, Truth Of Life

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

- H. P. Lovecraft

topic: Religious, Strong, Dark, Insanity And Sanity, Perversion

The love of money as a possession-as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life-will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease

- John Maynard Keynes

source: Essays in Persuasion pt. 5 (1931)

topic: Life, Mean, Reality, Morbidity, Reality Of Life

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

- Brian Sibley

topic: Night, Thinking, Numbers, Morbidity

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

topic: Get Well, Recovery, Healthy, Morbidity

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals.

- Lois Capps

topic: Strong, Nurse, Study, Morbidity, Correlation

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Long, Spirituality, Mystery, Morbidity

We must not concentrate overmuch upon our feelings. Do not spend too much time feeling your own pulse taking your own spiritual temperature, do not spend too much time analyzing your feelings. That is the high road to morbidity.

- Martyn

topic: Spiritual, Feelings, Analyzing, Morbidity

Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

- Roger Zelazny

source: Roger Zelazny (2000). “The Hand of Oberon”, G K Hall & Company

topic: Philosophical, Writing, Smoking, Good Evening, Morbidity

I have had, like most women, a lifelong preoccupation with my weight. My first published short story was a love story between an elderly man and a very young morbidity obese woman.

- Lori Lansens

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Men, Elderly, Firsts, Obese, Morbidity

The benefits of a modest warming would outweigh the costs - by $8.4 billion a year in 1990 dollars by the year 2060, according to Robert Mendelsohn at Yale University - thanks to longer growing seasons, more wood fiber production, lower construction costs, lower mortality rates, and lower rates of morbidity (illness).

- Joseph L. Bast

topic: Yale, Years, Dollars, Morbidity, Yale University

Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

- John Robbins

source: John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

topic: Cancer, Successful, Data, Hypertension, Morbidity

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

- Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

topic: Mother, Rights, Abortion, Precedence, Morbidity

I was thinking of the word Surrealistic . . . I don't think it should be used exclusively with my photographs. The meaning is close but I think my tendencies are more toward the whimsical or absurd. Surrealism is more connected with morbidity. From that I am very far away.

- Eva Fuka

topic: Thinking, Far Away, Whimsical, Morbidity

It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy. It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

- Maya Deren

topic: Flames, Fire, Joy, Morbidity

Many of Bonnard's later paintings are shot through with a powerful sense of morbidity. The self-portraits he painted after catching sight of himself in the various mirrors in the house - the mirror in the bathroom or the mirror in his bedroom, still lit from above by a single accusatory light bulb - are almost appallingly raw.

- Andrew Graham-Dixon

topic: Powerful, Mirrors, Light, Morbidity, Bulbs

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Misunderstood, Modern, Used, Morbidity

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VI : The Exposure, 1908.

topic: Men, Personality, Enemy, Morbidity, Great Personality

Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Mean, Aunt, Doctors, Great Confidence, Morbidity

You are my beauty, my body, perfected. All I was drained off into you. When you left, my health went with you - leaving a moral morbidity I smell in my sleep. The acts I committed for the love of you. Acts I can never forget. I crawled into the bellies of the dead to fish out a little life... I have an appetite for it now. I have an unrelenting lust for death.

- Clive Barker

topic: Sleep, Smell, Leaving, Unrelenting, Morbidity

But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary to go on, and takes stock of where it's been and where it's going. During these gloomy pauses, we often discover parts of ourselves we never knew we possessed, talents that, properly activated, enrich our lives.

- Eric G. Wilson

topic: Grief, Soul, Suffering, Morbidity