Poison Quotes

“His smile is infectious. But again, so was the plague.”
― Karina Halle, Smut

“Grace Poole shrugged. "If you're sure. I can whip something up in the cauldron."

"Do not eat anything she whips up in a cauldron," Helen whispered.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Plain Jane

“Agatha: She uses poison?!
Gil: Well, I always thought she just couldn't make coffee. But now, I'm not so sure.”
― Kaja Foglio, Agatha Heterodyne and the Hammerless Bell

“Eco listens with interest to the story of a lost manuscript for which people are being killed. He sees a man walk past holding a bouquet of roses. His mind wanders for a second, and a vision of a poisoned monk flashes through it.”
― Laurent Binet, La Septième Fonction du langage

“Crossing lines that can never be uncrossed.
Clangoring out words that can never be forgot.
Leaving welts behind with their lashing tongues.
Caring not of the unsaintly bell they have rung.
Oh, bitter hearts of selfish minds
You know not the poison you leave behind.”
― A.Y. Greyson

“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Περί ανάγνωσης και βιβλίων: Η τέχνη της αποχής από την ανάγνωση

“IN THE HANDS OF MAN

He who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.
He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.
He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.
He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.
He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to convert it to happiness.
He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.
He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.
Any problems created by the left hand of man,
Can also be solved with the right,
For he who manifests anything,
Also has the ability to
Destroy it.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“With pain in his voice, the camerlengo spoke of his late Pope... the victim of an Illuminati poisoning. And finally, his words almost a whisper, he spoke of a deadly new technology, antimatter, which in less than two hours threatened to destroy all of Vatican City.”
― Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

“Poison is not merciful towards people who have consumed it unknowingly.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people use the Bible as medicine. Others use it as poison." - Charles James”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Broken Road

“Unforgiveness is a poison that shrivels the heart. It means a person cannot truly live in the present as they're always thinking about the past.”
― Carolyn Miller

“There were poisons so subtle, that to know their properties, one had to sicken of them.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Mi pisci, kad se odlučimo pisati roman, kad počnemo razmišljati o radnji koja se provlači kroza nj, bez obzira na to je li to ili nije vrsta otrova koji se krije negdje duboko u čovječanstvu, on ipak izbije na površinu. Svaki pisac mora se suočiti s tim otrovom i, svjestan opće opasnosti, svaki pisac mora za sebe pronaći način na koji će se izboriti s time, jer inače njegova kreativnost neće nikada izbiti na vidjelo.”
― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“While astronomers have been studying Mercury, I have been living with mercury.”
― Steven Magee

“One can only wonder about a country that calls itself the greatest nation on Earth and silently radiation poisons its mass population.”
― Steven Magee

“Not forgiving someone is like taking a poison and expecting the other person to die from it.”
― Amani Uswale-Nketia

“It was ... more poison packed tight together in one place than I've ever known. Did Humans make it that way on purpose?”
― Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites

“When you look into the wide range of science on environmental radiation, it is reasonable to conclude that there is an extensive corporate government conspiracy to radiation poison the global population.”
― Steven Magee

“In reality everything is a little bit poisonous. It's the dose that matters, not the poison.”
― Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness

“I always thought it was a beautiful and noble state of mind, noble and dignified, even if it makes one unhappy. After all, I’ve composed so many ballads about it. And it is organic, Geralt, meanly and heartbreakingly organic. Someone who is ill or who has drunk poison might feel like this. Because like someone who has drunk poison, one is prepared to do anything in exchange for an antidote. Anything. Even be humiliated.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny

“I'm glad you're having one too," I say. "At least I can be sure your mom didn't poison it. She must really hate me. Especially now."

Luke rolls his eyes and groans at me. "She doesn't hate you. But she is disappointed you weren't honest with her. With us." I watch the way he holds the knife, careful and steady. It glides through the icing, then through the cake's flesh, with ease. "hey, she's mad at me too, if it helps."

He plops the blood-red cake at the center of the plate and slides it to me. Maybe red velvet wasn't the best choice.

"Great. So what you're saying is she poisoned both of us?”
― Ellery A. Kane, The First Cut

“Poison is for weaklings, they say. The English poet Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) may have been the first to coin the term “coward's weapon,” but the opinion has not dissipated in the centuries since; even a character in George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones recently sniped that poison was a gutless way to kill. Poison is sneaky, it’s slow, and you can poison someone without spilling a drop of their blood or awkwardly making eye contact with them midimpalement. As such, it doesn’t get a lot of cred for being scary. Poisoners simply don’t terrify people the way, say, disembowlers do.

But that’s unfair, because poisoning requires advance planning and the stomach for a drawn-out death scene. You need to look into your victim’s trusting eyes day after day as you slowly snuff out their life. You have to play the role of nurse or parent or lover while you sustain your murderous intent at a pitch that would be unbearable for many of those who’ve shot a gun or swung a sword. You’ve got to mop up your victim’s vomit and act sympathetic when they beg for water. While they scream that their insides are on fire, you must steel yourself against the dreadful sight of encroaching death and give them another sip of the fatal drink. A coward’s weapon? Not so much. Poison is the weapon of the emotionless, the sociopathic, and the truly cruel.”
― Tori Telfer, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History

“Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it" -John Ruston”
― Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

“Poisoning puts you into a mental state of wondering if you are alive or dead, as you are trapped in an intermediate state of mind.”
― Steven Magee

“I was surprised when I discovered my mercury poisoning that the company had changed its mercury handling policies years earlier and had not informed me.”
― Steven Magee

“It is probably a good thing that Karen Wetterhahn died from mercury poisoning, as if she had survived, she would have discovered the horrible Dartmouth College workers compensation experience for occupational disease.”
― Steven Magee

“Damage my health and I will hunt you down with science.”
― Steven Magee

“Mercury poisoning will take you into a very dark place and chelation will bring you back into the light.”
― Steven Magee

“Mercury poisoning wrecked my health and career.”
― Steven Magee

“In the space of less than a year, mercury poisoning took me from being sponsored for an exceptional ability green card by Dartmouth College to being shown the door.”
― Steven Magee