We can't afford to be morbid. We have to have cheerful hearts. [ H. E. Rives ]

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. [ Bovee ]

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

The effusions of genius, or rather the manifestations of what is called talent, are often the effects of distempered nerves and complexional spleen, as pearls are morbid secretions. [ Robert Walsh ]

I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]

The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. [ Beecher ]