Curse Quotes

924 Curse quotes by 688 unique authors

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities. — Itzhak Perlman
That's part of the curse: If you're gonna play the song, you better play it. I've tried to phone in 'Jeremy' a few times, and… — Eddie Vedder
An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Indian who was laid under a curse, that the wind should not blow on him, nor water flow to him, nor fire burn him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lots of us have expertise in particular areas. Becoming an expert in something means that we become more and more fascinated by nuance and complexity.… — Chip Heath
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive… — Max Weber
I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I… — Robert Sheckley
There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it. — J. Reuben Clark
The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more… — Mark Gatiss
I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election… — Robert Penn Warren
The curse of the sun and the moon is fake. It doesn`t exist. — Elijah
It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its… — Aleksandar Hemon
When our Lord looked at us, He saw not only what we were -- He was faithful in seeing what we could become! He took… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The fact that we are aware of ourselves is both our greatest curse and also our greatest blessing. — Leonard Jacobson
To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for… — Deepak Chopra
A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written. — Theodor Haecker
An inequality of property is the root and foundation of innumerable evils; it tends to derision, and to keep asunder the social feelings that should… — Orson Pratt
This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil. — Friedrich Schiller
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. — D. H. Lawrence
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober,… — Marcus Aurelius
The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst. — John W. Gardner
I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they… — Plato
Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a… — Haile Selassie

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