Quotes about curse
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder
Leaders don't cheat they don't envy. Leaders don't hate they don't curse. Leadership is a positive service to mankind.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Losing something might be a blessing gaining something might be a curse!
Anurag Shourie -
Self-destruction is an art cursed are the exponents.
Yvonne Wood - Dead Beautiful
There are no such things as curses only people and their decisions
Grace Willows - The Midnight Hour
What’s it like to live forever?Nicholas almost dropped the glass he had been holding. “What?”“What’s it like to know you will never die?”He should have known, he thought. She was a smart woman. “Lonely.” He said answering truthfully.He sighed. “It’s not romantic, or fun, or even exciting., It’s just lonely. I have watched everyone that I have ever loved, die. My family, my friends, my lovers and neighbors. It is not a fate I would ever wish on my worst enemy.
Gena Showalter - The Darkest Night
Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
Winston S. Churchill - The River War
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its digni
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.
A. Saleh - Poetry Eyes
When you write about what you dream, you become a writer.When you dream about what you write, you become haunted by a curse.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The curse of sin is nullify by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Henry Rollins -
There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf.
Sheri S. Tepper - The Visitor
Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.
Deyth Banger -
If every punch, kick done by somebody female or male (it doesn't matter) or a curses said by one of this two sexes and every other thing which makes you feel that you aren't protected or you are heart. Was replacted with a book, that you don't receive a punch or kick, but a book you will be an a librarian!
Rebecca Johns - The Countess
Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise
You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.
Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul.
Libba Bray - Rebel Angels
Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?"Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods
Rémy de Gourmont - : Being Selections from Promenades Philosophiques
Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.
Pet Torres - The Black Wolf's Mark
The black wolf’s curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.
Andrzej Sapkowski - Wieża Jaskółki
I've never understood why the majority of human curses and insults refer to the erotic sphere. Sex is wonderful and associated with beauty, joy and pleasure. How can the names of the sexual organs be used as a vulgar synonym for ̶
Robert G. Ingersoll - Some Mistakes of Moses
When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must confess that my sympathies are all aroused in their behalf. They were cheated, deceived and abused. Their god was quick-tempered unreasonable, cruel, revengeful and dishonest. He was always promising but never performed. He wasted time in ceremony and childish detail, and in the exaggeration of what he had done. It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Anger is like sex urge, once gratified, the inner voice calls you a stinking fool.
H.L. Mencken - The Artist: A Drama Without Words
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, a
Saim .A. Cheeda -
When you’ve been given a curse of perspective you don’t stop to consider the gift of oversight that most humans have been bestowed with.
Kia Carrington-Russell -
Energy is a being yet is not. For it to materialise it must be pure thus it turns into a crystal like form.That is the true being of the Elders and the Three Immortal Blades.And your body has been cursed with it.”Max Jacket- The Three Immortal Blades
Sunday Adelaja -
One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse. Some people advocate that if you are truly blessed you don’t need to work hard. Because as they say “the race is not to the swift”, I even had statements like “a day of favour is better than a thousand years of labour”. To make things worse, this type of teachings are actually coming from our pulpits. We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protest
Sunday Adelaja -
One destructive mind-set that must be altered in our society is the thought that work is a curse.
Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú Americanus, or more colloquially, fukú-generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and Doom of the New World.
Khalia Hades - Ariel's Demise
I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can’t I received the same feeling in return?”-Ariel
Khalia Hades - Ariel's Demise
Running her fingers on the scales, she sighs. “I wonder what its like to be a human?”“Why won’t you just go and find out?” the question startled her. She whirled around to come face to face with her evil aunt; Ursula.
Khalia Hades - Ariel's Demise
How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door.” Ursula sighed dramatically. “What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven’t eaten any of your children.”-Ursula
Khalia Hades - Ariel's Demise
She probably fell asleep and was washed away by the tortoise waves!”-Arista
Khalia Hades - Ariel's Demise
Father, what are you to do now?”Triton’s sneer grew scarier. “She broke the law.” turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. “She must die.
Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
I had been able to break the curse myself. I'd had to have reason enough, love enough to do it, to find the will and the strength.
Mike Mignola - Vol. 13: 1947
Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no matter the language-- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one-- long enough-- hard enough-- You will find one truth.
Alfred North Whitehead - Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.
Harrish Sairaman -
Technology is either a curse or a blessing depends on how we use it.
Matthew Lewis - The Monk
Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled fr
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.
Anthon St. Maarten - Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny
If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.
Thomas Ligotti - The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
If human pleasure did not have both a lid and a time limit, we would not bestir ourselves to do things that were not pleasurable, such as toiling for our subsistence. And then we would not survive. By the same token, should our mass mind ever become discontented with the restricted pleasures doled out by nature, as well as disgruntled over the lack of restrictions on pain, we would omit the mandates of survival from our lives out of a stratospherically acerbic indignation. And then we would not
Amit Kalantri -
Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.
Corey Ann Haydu - The Careful Undressing of Love
Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.
Khalia Hades - Ariel's Demise
Ariel: “Eric!”Eric: “Do not sing me back to shore! Not until you are standing on two feet!
Luke Taylor - Shatterpoint Alpha
The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.
Robert G. Ingersoll - Some Mistakes of Moses
Christians must show that misery fits the good for heaven, while happiness prepares the bad for hell; that the wicked get all their good things in this life, and the good all their evil; that in this world God punishes the people he loves, and in the next, the ones he hates; that happiness makes us bad here, but not in heaven; that pain makes us good here, but not in hell. No matter how absurd these things may appear to the carnal mind, they must be preached and they must be believed. If they we
Robert Fanney -
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.
Sophocles - Antigone
Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tempts and deludes the most well-meaning soul,Pointing out the way to infamy and shame." - Creon
Patrick Rothfuss -
Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.
Suzy Kassem -
Blessings Are Immeasurable"You can lose A child Or a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport, Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel like You've lost everything,And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses,And start counting your Blessings. Only th
Toba Beta - Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
The curse of men can't make me defiled.I defile myself if I curse men by intention.
Richard Paul Evans - The Mistletoe Promise
As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Anthony Liccione -
A friend is the wax that keeps the flame lit, an enemy is the wind that blows it out.
Henrietta Newton Martin -Senior Legal Consultant & Author -
Self pity is a curse , which may lead to indignant behavior., while a calm, non-competitive mind, achieves great feat. Competing with one self leads to blessing, while comparing oneself to others and then competing is a destructive path.
Michael Bassey Johnson - The Infinity Sign
Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.
Steven Erikson -
Now get going. You'll find a way of calm through.""And you, Mael?""I'll drop in later. I've things for you to do, Withal. But for now," he faced inland, "I'm going to beat a god senseless.
Christopher Moore - A Dirty Job
But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....
Mordecai Richler - Barney's Version
Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - The Cost of Discipleship
Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.
Christopher Buehlman - The Lesser Dead
I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso buffo. I respect that-I was always the same way myself-though I suspect you are not very happy. Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions. I remember, even before this was visited upon me, how I envied those who eagerly did what they were told: those who married without complaint at father's behest
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Don't degrade your soul to the extent of believing in curses. No man can curse you except your maker.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Rick Riordan - The Sea of Monsters
Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.
Anthony Ryan - Queen of Fire
Thirty-four, still undecided on a name, sat practicing his Realm tongue with Draker, although much of the lesson seemed to consist of the correct use of profanity. "No," the big man shook his shaggy head. "Pig-fucker not fuck-pigger.
Leah Stewart - The Myth of You and Me
To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
Craig D. Lounsbrough - Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.
Anthony Ryan - Queen of Fire
Have we freed this man or cursed him?" he wondered aloud."Freedom is never a curse, brother," Thirty-four insisted. "But it is often a hard road.
Anthony T. Hincks -
Hatred is a curse that only love can cure.
Bisco Hatori - Vol. 4
Love EgoistSumire: At first, I was simply fighting the image others forced on me. It's true that it's kind of fun to curse people behind their backs, but... I know it's not nice and it makes me feel depressed afterward.
Michael Bassey Johnson - Master of Maxims
Things you don't need in your life targets you the most.
B. Justin Shier - Zero Sum
I am aware that humans believe they are the sole owners of this curse, but all creatures love, Dieter. Love is our one shared madness, our one shared burden. All creatures are driven against sense by it, and even the lowest ant will die madly for her queen.
Marie Rutkoski - The Winner's Curse
A singer who refused to sing, a friend who wasn't her friend, someone who was hers and yet would never be hers. Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back
Anthony Liccione -
Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.
Deyth Banger - 4 Hours
Post a picture of you or of somebody and look... the days have been counted.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Gentleman
The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.
Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
They say it came from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Tainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles. Fukú americanus, or more colloquially, fukú - generally a curse or doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World. No matter what its name or provenance, it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on H
Cornelia Funke - Inkheart
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for
Kelly Moran - Sheer Luck
I give you my love & my luck. Don't throw either away.
Cheryl Cole -
Too much of anything can make you sick,even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole
Idries Shah - Reflections
Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
Alyson Noel -
This is where we go our seperate ways.Aware of the almost feel of his hand on my arm when he pulls me back to him and says, "Yes."I look at him, unsure of what he's saying yes to."The questions you asked earlier, about wanting to settle down, start a family, see my family? Yes. Yes to all of it."I try to swallow but can't, try to speak but the words just won't come.His hands sliding around me, grasping me to him, he lets go of the vial, allows it to fall, to crash to the ground. The sparkling gr
Criss Jami - Killosophy
What good is there in being blind, you ask? Well, maybe it's to see the beauty on the inside without being vainly distracted, or superficially blinded, by the ugly on the outside.
Joseph Lewis - An Atheist Manifesto
It is because of the Biblical curse on man's search for knowledge, which has so paralyzed his mind during the past ages, and its detrimental effect upon progress, that makes the Bible the most wicked, the most detestable, the most pernicious, and the most obnoxious book ever published. It has been a curse to the human race.It is the duty of every brave and honest man and woman to do everything in his and her power to destroy the influence of this utterly stupid and vicious book, with its infanti
Emily Thorne -
Some think intuition is a gift, but it can be a curse as well--a voice calling to us from places that are better left unexplored...an echo of memories that will never die, no matter how hard we try to kill them.
Joseph Lewis - An Atheist Manifesto
The Biblical writers not only had no knowledge of these things, but they had a perverted concept of life and the universe. Their concept was that man was a victim of blood pollution and his only salvation was by a blood atonement.I remember once seeing a small pamphlet entitled, 'What the Bible Teaches about Morality.' On opening the little booklet, it was discovered to be nothing but blank pages! Another such pamphlet might very appropriately be published entitled, 'What the Bible Reveals about
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lord, and I love you, and I feel a joy without which the world cannot stand and be.
Stephen Cave - Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization
We are therefore blessed with powerful minds yet at the same time cursed, not only to die, but to know that we must.
Keisha Keenleyside - The Spirit Master
Bitter and Frail, young and weak. Smiles are useless, talk is cheap, Give thou venom, fangs like slime, Ugly freak for all of time. An empty gift just from me, Give it now, so mote it be!
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.
Bernard Cornwell - The Flame Bearer
When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.