It Is Both A Blessing And A Curse Quotes

#1. It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story.

Erin Morgenstern

#2. Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.

Arnold Bennett

#3. Why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.

Roger Waters

#4. Through a woman [Eve] a curse fell upon the earth; through a woman [Mary] as well there returned to the earth a blessing.

Peter Damian

#5. I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.

Elias Koteas

#6. He turned the intended curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you.

Anonymous

#7. a~call it a blessing or call it a curse, but I see all of life in verse~

Lynn Orloff

#8. Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and a curse; and our inability to see into the future with any degree of accuracy is, simultaneously, the thing that saves us and the thing that condemns us.

James Robertson

#9. It is both a blessing
And a curse
To feel everything
So very deeply.

David Jones

#10. Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing;but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#12. Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

Anna Quindlen

#13. It is both a blessing and a curse that one could never see too far down the road ahead

Kirsten Beyer

#14. I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

Ariel Dorfman

#15. Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse,
Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse.

Joe Budden

#16. Those were the years when I was truly happy. Knowing that is both a blessing and a curse. It's good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life - in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit that you will never be happy like that again is hard.

William Boyd

#17. Although some say it is both a blessing and a curse to feel so deeply, I will take sensitivity over indifference every time.

Charles F. Glassman

#18. The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

E.F. Schumacher

#19. 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