Curse Quotes

924 Curse quotes by 688 unique authors

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk. — William Arthur Ward
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although… — Ellen G. White
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. — Oscar Wilde
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. — P.G. Wodehouse
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change… — Carter G. Woodson
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives. — Henry B. Eyring
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know… — Sue Monk Kidd
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs… — Marilynne Robinson
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.… — Annie Dillard
You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats. — Maya Angelou
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your… — Philip K. Dick
But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick… — Tim Burton
Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile — Anne Rice
We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation. — Hayao Miyazaki
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse. — Tim Burton
Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and… — Terry Tempest Williams
Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character. — Harry S. Truman
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the… — Abraham Kuyper
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. — Cormac McCarthy
The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge. — Chip Heath
Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we… — Marge Piercy
Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do… — Anne Rice

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