Top 100 Curse Quotes
#1. It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
Julia Quinn
#2. Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.
Rick Yancey
#3. It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.
James Sharp
#4. leave wizard Henry: at his lectern where
he's working on his phantasies: Disperse!
and everything goes worse
so the world fills with her knees, harmful & fair:
a medium where 'Fuck you' comes as no curse
but come as a sigh or a prayer.
John Berryman
#5. Never value anything as profitable that compels you to break your promise, to lose your self-respect, to hate any man, to suspect, to curse, to act the hypocrite, to desire anything that needs walls and curtains:
Marcus Aurelius
#6. Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue
Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.
Thomas Chatterton
#7. It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.
Christine Baranski
#9. Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
Stella Benson
#10. He was muttering my name over and over. Gin, Gin, Gin. Like it was some sort of prayer - or a curse. Sexiest damn thing I'd ever heard.
Jennifer Estep
#11. What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.
Henri Nouwen
#12. Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other's side, and thus perform a kind of epistolary abortion.
Janet Malcolm
#13. We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."
John Piper
#14. I bless you with a curse to always remain busy
Amit Abraham
#15. He got up slowly, not bothering to curse himself for forgetting the stop where he had to disembark. He was not used to leaving things behind; he wondered how the bus stop escaped.
Faraaz Kazi
#16. Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.
Simonides Of Ceos
#17. Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse
Ben Harper
#18. Who knows, maybe there never was a curse. Maybe it was just us-all of us-thinking that we deserved one.
Anne Fortier
#19. Enoch could respond with nothing more than a simple gesture in the orbs' direction. His brain was frozen. He could not think or speak, but the voiceless answer roused Fallon instantly. When he followed Enoch's gaze, a silent curse passed over his lips and then, We're in big trouble.
S.R. Ford
#20. Moving a safe distance away from her, I curse Dominic the mother fucking donkey.
Tara Sivec
#21. He picks up one of the tests and pretends like he's Harry Potter, aiming the test at random objects around the small bathroom yelling, I curse you with my magic wand, punk toilet paper!
Tara Sivec
#22. 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.
Gail Carson Levine
#23. Pure love' means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers; it is 'Pure Love'. 'Pure love' is considered Paramatma prem (Love of God). That is indeed true religion.
Dada Bhagwan
#24. It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
#25. I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.
Benicio Del Toro
#26. Rat. A curse, an insult, a word totally without light.
Kate DiCamillo
#27. The circumstances, including my body and my parents, whom I may curse, are my soul's own choice and I do not understand this because I have forgotten.
James Hillman
#28. My task might be monumental, but my gift - my curse - was the only means I had of making a difference in this world.
Kathryn Purdie
#29. I curse anyone who reads this book. If you touch it, hell will be waiting. Screw you. Happy reading.
Dawn Kurtagich
#30. This gambling habit is the curse of a thief's life.
Jack Black
#31. Shit," Jonny mumbled as he stepped on something soft and clinging in the doorway of the abandoned hotel. Then "Shit" again as he recognized the accuracy of his curse.
Richard Kadrey
#33. I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
Ray Lewis
#34. Followers of Christ are not called to be merely tolerant of others. We are called to love those who disagree with us. Abnormal communication - blessing those who curse us - establishes the relational level of our communication and demonstrates our concern for others.
Tim Muehlhoff
#35. Beauty's Curse
Her bow is drawn to worlds of dark,
where arrows spring and miss their mark
she'll turn their heads but not their hearts.
Lang Leav
#36. The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
John Wesley
#37. 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.
Libba Bray
#38. we have something between us, him and me. the the truth? everybody has it. that's our curse and our blessing. that's our trial and our error and our it.
John Green
#39. It's a curse to see all that might happen but never know what will.
Neal Shusterman
#40. She paid using the prettiest credit card, and then left it with the ticket seller as a gift. Along with a minor curse - a bladder infection and diarrhea - just because she was Baba Yaga, and certain things were expected.
Orson Scott Card
#41. Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To "never avenge yourselves" (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God's blessing also on their lives.
Greg Gordon
#42. They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.
Upton Sinclair
#43. The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E.F. Schumacher
#44. Ah remember walkin along Princes Street wi Spud, we both hate walkin along that hideous street, deadened by tourists and shoppers, the twin curse ay modern capitalism.
Irvine Welsh
#45. And then
with the curse, or, in this case, blessing, of the unpopular, the unathletic, the overweight, the strange
they vanished like shadows into the spring night.
Francesca Lia Block
#46. Loneliness is my curse---our species' curse---it's the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.
Douglas Coupland
#47. Some people possess gifts, and some people are possessed by them. When that happens, the gift becomes a curse
Anton Troia
#48. The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
Gustave Flaubert
#50. Do not be naive. AIDS is not a curse from God to Africans or the black people. It is a tool to control them designed by some evil-minded scientists, but we may not know who particularly did it.
Wangari Maathai
#51. When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
T.H. White
#52. Did you just curse? Isn't 'hell' - she air quoted - "a cursed word?"
"How 'bout you go straight there and see?
P.C. Cast
#53. Ain't it God's sword, fell from the sky? I thought it had to be passed on. Is it cursed?"
Craw took up the reins and turned back to the north. "Every sword's a curse, boy.
Joe Abercrombie
#54. Early every morning an old woman goes to the market to curse a grocery clerk, who curses back.
Mason Cooley
#55. Consciousness is the core of humanity. It can be a curse or it can be a cure. Only humanity can decide how to break the curse and be the cure.
Jennifer Ott
#56. my curse is that i fall in love with
men who believe in gods but not in me.
Salma Deera
#57. The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.
Kim Do-Jin
#58. Whilst man is in one location, he thinks of another. Dancing with one woman, he can't help but long to see the quiet curve of another's nude shoulder; to never be satisfied, to never have the mind and body cheerfully stranded in a single location - this is the curse of the human race!
Marisha Pessl
#59. True love is never lost, not even by a bishop's or a priest's curse, that we cannot regain it, so long as hope has still its bit of green.
Dante Alighieri
#60. And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you can.
Tobias Wolff
#61. Is the selfishness of children really so different from our own? During the summer in the country we curse the rain, while the farmers are crying out for it.
Raymond Radiguet
#62. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.
Bonnie Greer
#63. Hope was such a gift and a curse all rolled into one.
Maya Banks
#64. Kody "You know the Chinese have a curse."
Nick "And that is?"
Kody "May you live an interesting life.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#65. Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.
George R R Martin
#66. I mean we're all guilty of getting sidetracked or getting taken away from our loved ones. Whether we believe it or not, or care to admit it or not, it's just a product of this lifestyle. That's a big reason why I've always called this the blessing and the curse.
Chuck Ragan
#67. Samurai are born to die.
Death is not a curse to be avoided
but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal ... dishonor is.
Rick Remender
#68. the more powerful the curse that you put on your enemy, the stronger your protection needs to be.
Augustus Numley
#69. If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction.
Andrew Jackson
#70. Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted
Allen Ginsberg
#71. It is always a mistake to curse back openly at those who are stronger than you unless there is a fence between.
Margaret Atwood
#72. How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Ciceronian rhetoric.
Francois Rabelais
#73. Menstruating doesn't cause pickles to spoil, temples to collapse or food to rot, nor is it contagious, though it would be rather nice to infect the male population with this so-called 'curse' for a month or two, just to sit back and view what I am sure would be a highly entertaining spectacle.
Twinkle Khanna
#74. Surely time can take away such love. What a curse if it can't." "It can't." I said.
Anne Rice
#75. That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.
I don't want you to think I forgot.
David Levithan
#76. Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.
Michelle Madow
#78. Poor Craw?" Ben retorted. "Poor Rory! Craw and Ari curse worse than a trucker shagging a sailor.
Amy Lane
#79. You better not be touched by love; you are living peacefully. But if you do, you better not be left by it. Because The Wounded in love is only shreds of heart scattered. Even if you manage to regain your heart, you will never be that peaceful person again. Such is the curse of love.
Heenashree Khandelwal
#80. A desert blessing, an ocean curse.
John Green
#81. God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.
Ezra Taft Benson
#82. but nothing upset and preoccupied him like the phrase whatever they dread most, that will happen. It seemed more than a simple curse; there was the ring of something presaging and prophetic about it, it was the sort of thing Jesse would say.
Ron Hansen
#83. Faith is the wors curse of mankind, as the exact antithesis and enemy of thought.
Ayn Rand
#84. Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.
Hilary Mantel
#85. The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.
Billy Graham
#87. It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.
Robert Schumann
#88. For this world, which lives only through belief, being forgotten is our ultimate death curse. Had you not come, we would have slowly faded until nothing remained. Do not blame yourself for the machinations of fate.
Kathryn Tanquary
#89. Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.
Stephen King
#90. They cursed us - not with a common cursory curse, but with long, carefully-thought-out, comprehensive curses, that embraced the whole of our career, and went away into the distant future, and included all our relations, and covered everything connected with us - good, substantial curses.
Jerome K. Jerome
#91. My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.
Adam Mansbach
#92. Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.
Rebecca Johns
#93. Any fool would not be brave
Who takes no heed of this verse
No heroic deed or action save
Any man from Finndragon's curse
Richie Earl
#94. All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?
Max Lucado
#95. The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#96. Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.
Nikki Grimes
#97. Shit happens. But so does magic." ~ Celia Wird, SEALED WITH A CURSE: A Weird Girls Novel
Cecy Robson
#98. I've been a huge fan of all things paranormal my whole life. For me, it was always a question of when, not if, I was going to write a paranormal series. I dipped my toe in the genre by incorporating a mystical curse into the 'MacCarrick Brothers Trilogy.'
Kresley Cole
#99. Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.
Daniel Wallace
#100. If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories ... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.
Natalie Lloyd
