Tainted Quotes

“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world from beyond the barrier of what happened. They find themselves unable to communicate their condition to those who remained at home, resenting civilians for their blind innocence.
The Moral Injury, New York Times. Feb 17, 2015”
― David Brooks

“a fall from great innocence
hurts the most to know
that you are now
tainted”
― Anastasia wild

“In that moment, hell may have ascended,
Or heaven may have descended only to save me and prove,
What I carry is an exaggerated memory of an imagined beautiful love.
This love is tainted with treachery; it will be my doom.”
― Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

“Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground. He wished to be unconditionally alone, exiled to an island of his own creation, an uncontacted tribe of one.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“I was tainted.
With her blood.
Their blood.
And the disease of my despair.
There was no cleansing something so tainted.
This was who I was now.
This was War.”
― K. Webster, This is War, Baby

“Didn’t your mom teach you to not creep up on a girl in a hearse?” I snapped even though I knew my situation wasn’t normal at all, and no mom taught their kid that.
He chuckled lightly as he stared at me, humour in his eyes. “No. Actually missed out on that one. But then again, I thought you would’ve noticed me, with me having stood here for the past…” he stared at his non-existent watch, “… three minutes.”
― HeyLoQueeKayy

“If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t let this tainted ‘self-love’ trend have you 50 & alone because you walked away from everything that ‘didn’t serve you’ instead of learning conflict resolution.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Doctors should study professional astronomers to diagnose the mental health conditions that are driving them to damage their workers health in order to obtain tainted astronomical data.”
― Steven Magee

“Professional astronomers stole my health and career from me to obtain tainted astronomical data.”
― Steven Magee