74 Toxic Relationship Quotes

Navigating the tumultuous waves of a toxic relationship can be both mentally draining and emotionally exhausting. These complex connections often blur the lines between love and harm, leaving individuals feeling trapped in a cycle from which escape seems difficult. In such moments, words possess the power to provide clarity and comfort. To help you find strength and understanding, we have curated a list of the top 74 toxic relationship quotes. These quotes aim to shed light on the dark corners of unhealthy relationships, offering solace and the courage to seek healthier connections. Whether you're seeking validation of your feelings or motivation to move forward, these quotes are here to guide you on your journey toward emotional well-being.

1. “I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die” - M.T.

2. “Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” - Malachy McCourt

3. “Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.” - Janet Fitch

4. “There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.” - August Strindberg

5. “Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much."She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm.....Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd.She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.” - Chris Wooding

6. “In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference.” - Peter H. Fogtdal

7. “He wouldn't call a glass of water half full or half empty; he'd assume it was poisoned and run away. ” - Michael Reisman

8. “All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.” - Paracelsus

9. “Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or...""Or we'll die?" I guessed."Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes.""Let's avoid the swords," I decided.” - Rick Riordan

10. “Live or die, but don't poison everything.” - Anne Sexton

11. “I shaved this morning for precisely that reason. I was like, 'Well, you never know when someone is going to clamp down on your calf and try to suck out the snake poison.” - John Green

12. “Don't confuse contentment with happiness...” - Chris Wooding

13. “true apothecary thy drugs art quick” - William Shakespeare

14. “Take him away. Prepare a feast. Forget nothing. My crown: the golden cutlery. The poison bottles; and the fumes; the wreaths of ivy and the bloody joints; the chains; the bowl of nettles; the spices; the baskets of fresh grass; the skulls and spines; the ribs and shoulder-blades. Forget nothing or, by the blindness of my sockets, I will have your hearts out. Take him away...” - Mervyn Peake

15. “Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.” - Steve Maraboli

16. “If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All Poison, and come to "Cyanide," I am going to put under "Uses" the phrase "Particularly efficacious in the cure of those who call one 'Dearie.” - Alan Bradley

17. “That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted. (Last words.)” - Lou Costello

18. “Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.” - Robin Hobb

19. “Fear has the role we give it. We are able to empower or poison ourselves to whatever degree we want. This is the beauty of our design.” - Steve Maraboli

20. “Look, why don't you go talk to Ron about all this?" Harry asked."Well, I would, but he's always asleep when I go and see him!" said Lavender fretfully."Is he?" said Harry, surprised, for he had found Ron perfectly alert every time he had been up to the hospital wing.” - J.K. Rowling

21. “I just wanted them to die," said Poison. "They didn't have to make such a drama about it.” - Chris Wooding

22. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” - Steve Maraboli

23. “There are times in my life when I have been medicine for some while poison for others. I used to think I was a victim of my story until I realized the truth; that I am the creator of my story. I choose what type of person I will be and what type of impact I will leave on others. I will never choose the destructive path of self and outward victimization again.” - Steve Maraboli

24. “I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.” - Vladimir Nabokov

25. “Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.” - Toba Beta

26. “‎By reacting from fear instead of responding from love, you inject poison directly into the veins of your relationship.” - Steve Maraboli

27. “Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

28. “She sipped the tonic. Her face puckered again. She gagged, covered her mouth and mumbled in disgust, "Oh my God!""I said it tasted better, not great."Abby continued to force the sour tonic down in sips. She could taste a hint of vanilla but the potion left a bitter aftertaste that was similar to vinegar. Her stomach gurgled and burned."Water," she coughed after her last sip of tonic."No. You'll dilute it," Noel said firmly, relieving her of the glass.Smartly, she rebutted, "Isn't that what you're supposed to do after drinking poison? Or is it throw up?” - Devon Ashley

29. “Laughter is poison to fear.” - George R.R. Martin

30. “One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.” - Steve Maraboli

31. “Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.” - Steve Maraboli

32. “Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it now at their mother's knee.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

33. “Vous avez du poison au coeur, mademoiselle.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

34. “When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One” - Frances Hodgson Burnett

35. “If there is no wound in your hand You can carry poison in your hand.Poison does not attack one who is unwounded. There is no evil for one who does not do evil.” - Anonymous

36. “The few cures we have recorded could be multiplied many times over, many of them experienced by people who had failed to find relief through conventional medical treatment. If a story from Scotland is to be believed, the success of one holy well, St. Drostan's at Newdosk (Angus), was so distasteful to the local doctors that they decided to poison the well. When the people heard of their intention, they banded together to attack and kill the doctors!” - Colin Bord

37. “Hunger for me, ka-lyrra, he thought silently, get addicted to me. I will be both venom and antidote, your poison and your only cure.” - Karen Marie Moning

38. “Ideas and philosophies have a shelf-life. They must be kept fresh and renewed or they will spoil. If left unattended, the same ideas and philosophies that once nourished you and helped you grow can poison you and make you sick. Become aware of new ideas that can refresh your way of life and be open to the fact that your old ideas and philosophies can work for you for some time, but when the shelf-life has passed, those ideas and philosophies could also harm you.” - Steve Maraboli

39. “Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.” - Steve Maraboli

40. “They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—” - Maryrose Wood

41. “foxgloveIN THEoleanderRIGHT DOSEmoonseedEVERYTHINGbelladonnaIS A POISONlove.” - Maryrose Wood

42. “It takes bravery to recognize where in your life you are your own poison... it takes courage to do something about it.” - Steve Maraboli

43. “Stirred up pride is poison to the soul.” - Evinda Lepins

44. “In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.” - Steve Maraboli

45. “The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.” - Marguerite de Valois

46. “Challenges in life can either enrich you or poison you. You are the one who decides.” - Steve Maraboli

47. “Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.” - Alan Bradley

48. “While I prepared to poison my girlfriend, I sorted through the previous day’s post” - Andrew K. Lawston

49. “The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. 'Toxic' comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root meaning of 'a poisoned arrow.' All organic life is struck by the arrows of real and psychic poisons. This is understood by any true, that is to say, not self-deluding, spiritual path.” - Gary Snyder

50. “You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage.” - Evelyn Klebert

51. “We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.” - R.D. Ronald

52. “There are people who are destined to taste only the poison in things, for whom any surprise is a painful surprise and any experience a new occasion for torture. if someone were to say to me that such suffering has subjective reasons, related to the individual's particular makeup, i would then ask; is there an objective criterion for evaluating suffering? who can say with precision that my neighbor suffers more than i do or that jesus suffered more than all of us? there is no objective standard because suffering cannot be measured according to the external stimulation or local irritation of the organism, but only as it is felt and reflected in consciousness. alas, from this point of view, any hierarchy is out of the question. each person remains with his own suffering, which he believes absolute and unlimited. how much would we diminish our own personal suffering if we were to compare it to all the world's sufferings until now, to the most horrifying agonies and the most complicated tortures, the mostcruel deaths and the most painful betrayals, all the lepers, all those burned alive or starved to death? nobody is comforted in his sufferings by the thought that we are all mortals, nor does anybody who suffers really find comfort in the past or present suffering of others. because in this organically insufficient and fragmentary world, the individual is set to live fully, wishing to make of his own existence an absolute.” - Emil Cioran

53. “It’s like irresistible poison: I’m mesmerized by the way it’s making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway.” - J.A. Redmerski

54. “all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt.” - George R.R. Martin

55. “Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

57. “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” - George R.R. Martin

58. “What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.” - Cassandra Clare

59. “Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet; they were that much more dangerous because of it.” - Nenia Campbell

60. “We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.” - Steve Maraboli

61. “The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.” - Maya Angelou

62. “Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.” - Robert Graves

63. “New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit.” - Steve Maraboli

64. “Service and gratitude will fuel your relationship; entitlement and expectation will poison it.” - Steve Maraboli

65. “I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.” - Shirley Jackson

66. “She said I'd poison his mind and make him a fascist.I said she'd poison his body and make him an addict.” - Julian Fellowes

67. “Anna Petrovna (to Shabelsky): You can't make a simple joke without an injection of venom. You are a poisonous man. Joking apart, Count, you're very poisonous. It's hideously boring to live with you. You're always grumpy, complaining, you find everyone bad, good for nothing. Tell me frankly, Count, did you ever speak well of anyone?” - Anton Chekhov

68. “So? I know damn well that I didn’t poison her.”Veronica Lane, M.D., Treating Murder” - Gabrielle Black

69. “Let us drink deep brothers,' he cried, leaving off his strange anointment for a while, to lift a great glass, filled with sparkling liquor, to his lips. 'Let us drink to our approaching triumph. Let us drink to the great poison, Macousha. Subtle seed of Death, - swift hurricane that sweeps away Life, - vast hammer that crushes brain and heart and artery with its resistless weight, -I drink to it.' 'It is a noble concoction, Duke Balthazar,' said Madame Filomel, nodding in her chair as she swallowed her wine in great gulps. 'Where did you obtain it?''It is made,' said the Wondersmith, swallowing another great draught of wine ere he replied, 'in the wild woods of Guiana, in silence and in mystery. Only one tribe of Indians, the Macoushi Indians, know the secret. It is simmered over fires built of strange woods, and the maker of it dies in the making. The place, for a mile around the spot where it is fabricated, is shunned as accursed. Devils hover over the pot in which it stews; and the birds of the air, scenting the smallest breath of its vapour from far away, drop to earth with paralysed wings, cold and dead.''It kills, then, fast?' asked Kerplonne, the artificial-eye maker, - his own eyes gleaming, under the influence of the wine, with a sinister lustre, as if they had been fresh from the factory, and were yet untarnished by use.'Kills?' echoed the Wondersmith, derisively; 'it is swifter than thunderbolts, stronger than lightning. But you shall see it proved before we let forth our army on the city accursed. You shall see a wretch die, as if smitten by a falling fragment of the sun.'("The Wondersmith")” - Fitz-James O'Brien

70. “This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not?("The Wondersmith")” - Fitz-James O'Brien

71. “There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.” - Steve Maraboli

72. “A little toxin is the best tonic.” - David P. Gontar

73. “Our minds have been poisoned and our accepted beliefs are unnatural and artificial.” - Bryant McGill

74. “An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.” - James Ruddick