Quotes for All
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
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
You won’t find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope. Dean Koontz
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 … Read more
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
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 … Read more