Curse Quotes
924 Curse quotes by 688 unique authors
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They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
— Cormac McCarthy
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And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot…
— Ayn Rand
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There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And…
— Robert W. Service
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Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too…
— Gaston Leroux
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The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own,…
— Brandon Mull
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Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.
— Emily Bronte
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Sometimes it was daunting, knowing how easily I could break things. This one simple curse seemed to dominate my entire life.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all…
— Jhonen Vasquez
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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears…
— Pope John XXIII
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There she weaves by night and day, A magic web with colors gay. She has heard a whisper say, A curse is on her if…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their…
— Henry Miller
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got…
— C.S. Lewis
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The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another…
— Larry Winget
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Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each…
— Obert Skye
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the…
— Frantz Fanon
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The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The gods you do not pay are the ones that can curse you best.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to…
— Tom Robbins
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The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
— Peter S. Beagle
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Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of…
— Paul Valery
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A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play…
— Jeanette Winterson
Who Wrote These Curse Quotes
688 authors contributed a total of 924 Curse Quotes, led by these top contributors: