“ Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ”
- Nathalie Sarraute- Copy
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“ The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment? ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life. ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
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“ Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ”
- Evelyn Underhill- Copy
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“ The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration… ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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