You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed…

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

— Dante Alighieri

“The wind stung from a sudden gust of cold air. Talis exhaled forcefully, wishing she hadn’t brought up the subject of his older brother’s…

— John Forrester

Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?”

— Euripides

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

— Euripides

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full…

— David Hume

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

I cursed [Larry Merchant] out once, and I told him that he was a phony.

— Larry Holmes

“My heart almost vaulted out of my chest. I was snuggled against Ryan’s shoulder. We were burrowed under the cloak and sleeping bag, and…

— Sam Dogra

Too blessed to be stressed. Too blessed to be cursed.

— Frank Matobo

I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.

— Ed Kowalczyk

[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only…

— Zelig Pliskin

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.

— John Hagee

“He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.”

— Maile Meloy

You love what you do, you are cursed with it, and then you get known for being cursed with it

— Armand Assante