“Never take the antidote before the poison”
Latin Proverb
“There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.”
Bertrand Russell
“Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.”
Virginia Woolf
“We're the only ones who have the antidote.”
Nestor Suarez
“We want them to learn simple things that are relaxing, like conscious breathing and guided imagery, which are antidotes to anxiety.”
Peggy Brown
“The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning.”
Gail Godwin
