Quotes about Poison

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment.

I've identified four specific kinds of toxic waste that can poison our minds: (1) pessimism, which usually produces chronically negative thoughts; (2) anxiety, which usually manifests as fearful and worried thoughts; (3) bitterness, which pollutes our thinking with discontented and envious thoughts; and (4) criticism, which pumps destructive judgmental thoughts into our minds.