Top 97 Quotes About Accursed
#1. I have an acute sense of delicacy. Naturally I am prejudiced in favour of virtue.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")
Bernard Capes
#2. I had gone far in search of the sun, and the sun, found at last, was hostile to me. And if I were to fling myself off a cliff? While I was making such rather grim speculations, considering these pines, these rocks, these waves, I suddenly felt how bound I was to this lovely, accursed universe.
Emil M. Cioran
#3. This rebel would but toss his head, and men,slaves,horses, towers ... all the accursed levels above him ... would come tumbling down. God always works in this way. Deep in the foundations of wrong he buries the small despised cry of justice.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#5. I could not help feeling that they were evil things
mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.
H.P. Lovecraft
#6. It is the accursed inventions of this century that are ruining everything--artilleries, bombards, and, above all, printing, that other German pest. No more manuscripts, no more books! printing will kill bookselling. It is the end of the world that is drawing nigh.
Victor Hugo
#7. Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#8. I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
William Morris
#9. Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?
Mary Shelley
#10. That is the accursed thing about small surroundings
they make the soul small.
Henrik Ibsen
#11. Evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a fly, and a vast, all-encompassing, one might say universal sort, that must be halted by any means at hand.
Joyce Carol Oates
#12. I would gnaw, gnaw at myself with my teeth, inwardly, secretly, tear and suck at myself until the bitterness finally turned into some shameful, accursed sweetness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. This, this indeed is to be accursed,
For if we mortals love, or if we sing,
We count our joys not by what we have,
But by what kept us from that perfect thing.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
#14. We really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from the accursed void in which He found himself.
Leszek Kolakowski
#15. The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
William Ellery Channing
#16. It is no more malicious, and surely no more unnatural than the act of introducing the male black widow spider to the female of the species. For, what is one doing but hasten the procedure of Nature, and thereby abridging the narrative?
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!
Maurice Druon
#18. For The Accursed is intended as a work of inquiring moral complexity, and not a "sensationalist" rehashing of an old, dread scandal far better left to molder in the grave!
Joyce Carol Oates
#19. Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.
Homer
#20. We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
Douglas Mawson
#21. O thoughts of men accursed!
Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.
William Shakespeare
#22. Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness.
Martin Luther
#23. Darwin- I think the theory is: out of 'chaos' arises something that resembles 'design'. But it's all random.
Joyce Carol Oates
#24. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.
Aleister Crowley
#25. OEDIPUS:
O, O, O, they will all come,
all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let me
look upon you no more after today!
I who first saw the light bred of a match
accursed, and accursed in my living
with them I lived with, cursed in my killing.
Sophocles
#26. I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
George Bernard Shaw
#28. Considered alone, the railways will not pollute the springs of life, but as a whole they are accursed. The whole tendency of our latest centuries, in its scientific and materialistic aspect, is most probably accursed.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#29. Get up, Imogen, and get yourself ready for battle. From now on, the orders around here are going to come from me." "And the first thing you're going to do is free my son from that accursed Malachi Configuration.
Cassandra Clare
#30. Accursed from their birth they be Who seek to find monogamy, Pursuing it from bed to bed - I think they would be better dead.
Dorothy Parker
#31. That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch!
Cornelia Funke
#32. 'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
George Herbert
#33. Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels ...
("The Wondersmith")
Fitz-James O'Brien
#34. No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.
Joyce Carol Oates
#35. Let me be accursed. Let me be vile and base, only let me kiss the hem of the veil in which my God is shrouded.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. Even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the hands of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!
Susan B. Anthony
#37. ...that special despondent and accursed look that only our hospitals and prisons have.
Anton Chekhov
#38. He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.
Steve Aylett
#39. Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end of the accursed war, for unification. This striving of the workers for unification is the greatest factor in world history.
Grigory Zinoviev
#40. In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
Michel De Montaigne
#41. Expressed in Latin, it would have read Exi, impie, exi, scelerate, exi cum omnia fallacia tua, which translates into English as "Depart, impious one, depart, accursed one, depart with all your deceits.
Dean Koontz
#42. This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.
John Sergeant Wise
#43. Farming
a vocation accursed of heaven, since one never saw a millionaire involved in it.
Gustave Flaubert
#44. The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge)
Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.
Hilaire Belloc
#45. There is no such thing as a "social gospel." It is a misnomer. There is only one Gospel. "If any man preach any other gospel unto you ...
let him be accursed" [Galatians 1:9 KJV].
Billy Graham
#46. No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#47. Speaking of the information superhighway, we have all given each other official permission to administer a beating to whoever uses that accursed term. We're so sick of it!
Douglas Coupland
#48. Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.
Francois Fenelon
#49. So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
Octavius Winslow
#50. If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let them be accursed at His coming. God save you from your fate. Amen!
Alexander Anderson
#51. What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.
Herman Melville
#52. I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly recommended from George R. R. Martin, and for good reason.
Victoria Aveyard
#53. I was banished," said Reven proudly.
"What for?" Elfwyn pressed.
"The king said I was anathema."
"He doesn't like athemas?"
"Anathema means, like, accursed," said Jinx. "Probably it was for robbing people.
Sage Blackwood
#54. Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.
Georges Bataille
#55. O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Virgil
#56. I always worried because whenever a drought struck, an accursed storm of blood always followed.
Bo-Young Kim
#57. In the end, after/before two tragic deaths, that accursed rag doll had an ear-to-ear smile on its face.
Troy McCombs
#58. Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold? ... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#59. The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
James Russell Lowell
#62. In the wind of the mind arises the turbulence called I.
It breaks; down shower the barren thoughts.
All life is choked.
This desert is the abyss wherein the Universe.
The Stars are but thistles in that waste.
Yet this desert is but one spot accursed in a world of bliss
Aleister Crowley
#63. Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!
Herman Melville
#64. If we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing
John Calvin
#65. I think God hands over to His apprentices the moulding of vessels that don't interest Him.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")
Bernard Capes
#66. Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.
Joyce Carol Oates
#67. You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy that this accursed man will cast our Reich into the abyss and bring our nation to inconceivable misery. Future generations will damn you in your grave for what you have done.
Erich Ludendorff
#68. Bully the jade, and she will love you.
("The Accursed Cordonnier")
Bernard Capes
#69. We still have many shortcomings and failures to fulfill the Party's demands, especially as regards the liquidation in some of our people of survivals of the accursed past in consciousness and conduct and the fulfillment of the demands of our Soviet ethics and military discipline.
Filipp Golikov
#72. Indeed, sir, I would be more than willing to do whatever I can to speed my mistress and myself away from this accursed country and away from the likes of you." She looked Alex directly in the eye. "You, sir, ride with death on your shoulder, and it does not make for pleasant company.
Marsha Canham
#73. For deep love unsatisfied is the hell of noble hearts and a portion of the accursed, but love that is mirrored back more perfect from the soul of our desired doth fashion wings to lift us above ourselves, and makes us what we might be.
H. Rider Haggard
#74. Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.
John Calvin
#75. The accursed hunger for gold.
Virgil
#76. If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!
Lu Xun
#77. Whether you're a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon's epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like 'A Song of Ice and Fire', you will love 'The Accursed Kings'.
George R R Martin
#78. It's the accursed inventions of the age that are ruining everything - the artillery, the muskets, the cannons, and above all the printing press, that scourge brought from Germany. No more manuscripts, no more books. Printing is ruining bookselling. The end of the world is upon us.
Victor Hugo
#79. Accursed be the city where the laws would stifle nature's!
Lord Byron
#80. Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other men, to do good to them or simply give them something to do, is unhappy, disconsolate, and accursed.
Edmond De Goncourt
#81. Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting-needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case all over Moscow.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#82. As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed.
William Wordsworth
#83. The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them.
Joyce Carol Oates
#84. Nessy had never believed that fear and respect were the same thing. Nor did she believe that the castle's manners were beyond redemption, for although her accursed home was mostly bad it was at least a little bit good. She hoped it would be good enough.
A. Lee Martinez
#85. Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
Edgar Allan Poe
#86. Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
Cornelia Funke
#87. May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
Daniel Boone
#89. The winds have a force so terrific as to eclipse anything previously known in the world. We have found the kingdom of blizzards. We have come to an accursed land.
Lennard Bickel
#90. Of all crimes the worst
Is to steal the glory
From the great and brave,
Even more accursed
Than to rob the grave.
Robert Frost
#91. Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
W.B.Yeats
#92. Faith' and 'science' inhabit totally different spheres, and do not overlap, even to share the same vocabulary.
Joyce Carol Oates
#93. If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
Antonin Artaud
#94. In consequence again of those accursed laws of consciousness, anger in me is subject to chemical disintegration. You look into it, the object flies off into air, your reasons evaporate,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#96. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.
Anonymous
#97. Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.
David Mitchell
