Toxic Quotes

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.”
― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much.”
― Tyler Hamilton

“It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.”
― D.L. Maddox, The Dog Walker: The Prequel

“MISERABLE

Release the toxic and infectious-
Spreaders of misery,
Souls destroying souls-
And poisonous liars.

Awaken from the hallucinations-
And take back your heart.
Reclaim your self-esteem-
And leave the toxic be.”
― Giorge Leedy, Uninhibited From Lust To Love

“Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.”
― John L. Lund, How to Hug a Porcupine: Dealing With Toxic & Difficult to Love Personalities

“Negative people can only infest you with discouragements when they find you around... Just get lost and get saved!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

“I seem to be torn between 'I wish we'd met earlier' and 'I wish we'd never met'.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.”
― Germany Kent

“I may seem happy, but I’m still hurting. A nasty, adulterous divorce will do that.”
― Cricket Rohman, Wanted: An Honest Man

“Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

“If you want to bring the world closer to peace, be a peacemaker by creating peace whenever you can. If you find yourself engaged in an argument that only stirs anger in the heart, quickly make peace and carry on.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It was in those moments that I became one of them, one of the leavers. I'm leaving and I'm never coming back, I thought. It felt powerful. I finally felt in control. Is this how it felt to all the others. the leavers, the takers, the breakers? I became what they were. I could disappear. -The Art of Leaving”
― Shilo Niziolek, Broad River Review

“She is INSANE," I scream, standing in the middle of Marshall's living room.
"Of course, she's insane. That would be your genealogy by the way.”
― Addison Moore, Toxic Part One

“There are two covenants that cease to exist in the Master's Kingdom - death and marriage."
"What an appropriate pairing," I muse.
"He thought so.”
― Addison Moore, Toxic Part One

“Bear in mind that since medications do not fix anything, they allow the underlying problem to continue uncorrected and actually accelerate. Meanwhile, new symptoms and new seemingly unrelated diseases are the inevitable consequence of this biochemical faux pas. Furthermore, drug side effects are the leading cause of death. NSAIDs as an example of only one group of medications, are fatally toxic to thousands of people each year by damaging joints, lungs, kidneys, eyes, hearts, and intestines. And they are covered by insurance.

You and your doctor have been screwed into believing every symptom is a deficiency of some drug or surgery. You've been led to believe you have no control, when in truth you're the one who must take control. Unfortunately, the modus operandi in medicine is to find a drug to turn off the damaged part that is producing symptoms.”
― Sherry A. Rogers, Detoxify or Die

“Right. Like I'm going to lose my freaking mind and hop right down the demonic bunny trail with Marshall so he can paw me every chance he gets.”
― Addison Moore, Toxic Part One

“We could call him Gynecological Gage or Assman - AssHOLE - take your pick.”
― Addison Moore, Toxic Part One

“Eat my food or die."
"If I eat your food I WILL die." He belches before reaching in the fridge for a soda. "Yeah, whatever. Gimme something to commit a slow suicide with.”
― Addison Moore, Toxic Part One

“The only thing that frightens me, Chloe, is that you keep lessening the six degrees of separation in our lives.”
― Addison Moore, Toxic Part One

“Y'all got your heads tucked so far up your rears, she's petrified the kid's gonna need a shrink before he can shit in a dish.”
― Addison Moore, Toxic Part One

“What your dad did was terrible, there's no two ways about it. But I think you've got to try to forgive him, if not for his sake, then for your own.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Why's it always my job to clear up the mess you've created? Why am I the one having to pick up all the pieces of the things you've broken? Well, I've had enough”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“It’s so peaceful here. The real world feels like it's a million miles away.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Sometimes you convince yourself that the only option is just to carry on, put your head down and get on with it, when really, all you really need is to step off the merry-go-round and allow yourself to get things in perspective.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“This place just keeps on giving, just when you think you've seen everything, it surprises you.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Life couldn't be this cruel, couldn't be this unfair, could it? She'd told herself that this had to be a nightmare, some awful dream from which she would wake at any second; it couldn't be reality, it just couldn't be the truth.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Just another in a long line of broken lonely men who had convinced themselves that power and wealth could fill the empty void at the centre of their souls.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You

“Life wouldn't always feel this dark, she would find the strength to keep going, and once the funeral was over, she would make it her mission to find both light and hope again.”
― Mike Gayle, A Song of Me and You