Top 100 Quotes About Curses
#1. That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.
Ovid
#2. There are no such things as curses; only people and their decisions
Yvonne Wood
#3. Curses are our conscious choices, so is grace," said Rama. Every error is an invitation to see our reality better, to realise where our consciousness is and where it can be. When we refuse to reach out to the potential of our consciousness, a curse befalls us.
Tomichan Matheikal
#4. I let out a string of curses that would put even the boy's locker room to shame, ending with an emphatic kick to the mailbox post.And the worst part was of coure it wasn't there yet. My weird nerves all day were pointless.
Kiersten White
#5. Worrying is the greatest pride, which is why nature punishes one heavily. Nature punishes more the one who worries, than it does the one who curses God. The doer is some other entity and you are worrying? Are you mightier than even nature?
Dada Bhagwan
#6. Just as an octopus may have his den in some ocean cave, and come floating out a silent image of horror to attack a swimmer, so I picture such a spirit lurking in the dark of the house which he curses by his presence, and ready to float out upon all whom he can injure.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#7. I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
Anais Nin
#8. A voice that had traversed the centuries, so heavy it broke what it touched, so heavy I feared it would ring in me with eternal resonance, a voice rusty with the sound of curses and the hoarse cries that issue from the delta in the last paroxysm of orgasm.
Anais Nin
#9. Class amusements, be they for Dukes or plow-boys, always become nuisances and curses to a country. The true charm of cricket and hunting is that they are still, more or less sociable and universal; There's a place for every man who will come and take his part.
Thomas Hughes
#10. The most brazen humiliation ever inflicted upon God and mankind, justifying all the curses of the synagogue, is to be found in the 'sive' of the formula Deus sive Natura.
Carl Schmitt
#11. Rob looked a little shocked. "Don't you look at me like that," I snapped at him. "Just because I can't trim a beard don't mean I can't swear."
"Like a sailor," he added. "I've never heard so many curses in my whole life. All combined.
A.C. Gaughen
#12. All the while I rattled off a long list of curses in the soundproofed room of my mind.
Lia Habel
#13. There are demons and there are evil people in the world And you post a picture like that, and some cultist gets a hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child.
Pat Robertson
#15. I don't believe in curses, I think you make your own destination.
Manny Ramirez
#16. You may borrow them, if
you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me.
"I'd like that very much."
"I should warn you, however, that I have several volumes devoted to curses for
people who don't return books."
"I'd like to borrow those, too.
Steven Brust
#17. But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!
John Godfrey Saxe
#18. Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope.
Samuel Rutherford
#19. We each have our belssings and our curses. In the end it makes us equals.
Elizabeth Haydon
#20. Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.
Regina Brett
#21. Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.
Mary Collyer
#22. The trouble with atheism," Temoc said, "is that it offers a limited range of curses.
Max Gladstone
#23. I've seen things I can't explain. And I believe in things I can't see. I believe in fate and luck and curses.
Abigail Roux
#25. Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
Nora Roberts
#26. Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me.
I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm ... Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days.
Mari Mancusi
#27. Cath could hear the perv shouting curses behind them. "Oh, fuck you, Flowers in the Attic!" Levi shouted back
Rainbow Rowell
#28. Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
William S. Burroughs
#29. We are not under its [the laws] curses, but we are under its commands. We are not under the law for judgement, but we are under the law for conduct.
Samuel Bolton
#30. And letting out thirty groans and sixty sighs and one hundred and twenty curses on the head of the person who'd brought him there, he hauled himself to his feet,
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#31. I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life, he who blesses it and he who contemplates it. I loved the first for his wretchedness, the second for his indulgence and the third for his perception.
Kahlil Gibran
#32. You're already married!" Hera protested. "To me!"
"Curses!" said Zeus. "Er, I mean, of course, dear.
Rick Riordan
#33. For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.
Charles Studd
#34. Right! There are plots.
Your beauty! Oh, ten thousand curses on 't!
How long have I beheld the devil in crystal!
Thou hast led me, like an heathen sacrifice,
With music, and with fatal yokes of flowers,
To my eternal ruin. Woman to man
Is either a god, or a wolf.
John Webster
#35. That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.
Junot Diaz
#36. Juju is not enough to protect you. Everything you have I will turn against you. I'll turn sugar bitter for you. I'll take your very shield and crack it on your head.
Helen Oyeyemi
#37. But curses are not real. Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Isn't it?
Anthony Doerr
#38. Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.
Cornelia Funke
#40. Oh, by the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus!
Hilary Mantel
#41. I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
Ambrose Bierce
#42. Twenty she curses you out by lunch," says Chris.
"Thirty she kills you by lunch," adds Logan.
"I'm getting her number."
The two of them laugh.
Katie McGarry
#43. The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious
Martin Luther
#45. Easy things are worthless ... It's the hard things that matter. Those are the things worth leaping for ... If we don't fight other people's curses, what are we left with? Just a swift fall to the earth, and where's the meaning in that?
Andrea Cremer
#46. Twilight makes us pensive; Aurora is the goddess of activity; despair curses at midnight; hope blesses at noon.
Benjamin Disraeli
#48. A shivery, delicious Southern Gothic with feuding families, dark spirits, ancient curses and caught up in the middle, a young girl learning to live and love for the first time. Atmospheric and suspenseful, Compulsion will draw you in and hold you until the very last page.
Leah Cypess
#49. Hades, Hera, and Hestia!" Flynn curses, pointing up.
"What in the Underworld is that?"
"A She-Dragon." Everyone turns to me, and as much as I love having four handsome men gape at me in stupefaction, right now, I could do without.
Amanda Bouchet
#50. The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony.
David Mitchell
#51. Wretched Girl, you must stay here with me! Here amidst these lonely Tombs, these images of Death, these rotting loathsome corrupted bodies! Here shall you stay, and witness my sufferings; witness, what it is to die in the horrors of despondency, and breathe the last groan in blasphemy and curses!
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#52. Worn-out shoes. Few of the men had anything solid on their feet, and the curses toward the supply officers went mostly unheeded by the officers, who had worries of their own.
Jeff Shaara
#53. I married a saint - well, a saint who curses.
Ray Romano
#54. Back to sleep, my babies," she said in a soothing voice. "Pa just went to the privy. I'm only taking him a light to see his way back. You know how your pa stumbles his toes in the night and then curses us for it. Back to sleep, the both of you. Everything is all right. Just takin' your pa a lamp.
Terry Goodkind
#55. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.
John Milton
#56. If I believed in curses, I would believe that this is mine: when it matters most, in the moments when I know with the greatest clarity exactly what needs to be done, everything I say comes out wrong.
Tana French
#57. I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.
Mark Cuban
#58. There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.
Anthony Doerr
#59. Gifts become curses when they're not given their due respect.
Dannika Dark
#60. I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.
Justin Halpern
#61. Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#62. I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.
Danny Aiello
#63. As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker.
Gustave Flaubert
#64. If there are any curses left in baseball, they are all on the north side of Chicago.
Tucker Elliot
#65. Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
Seneca The Younger
#66. Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
Phyllis Bottome
#67. Danny curses up a storm. And feels stupid. Because cursing in front of company at least generates an effect. Cursing alone is like taking a Hi-Liter to futility.
David Levithan
#68. He is mighty in the near world, but curses his might as purchased with his harmony of soul, his innocence, his inner peace in life's embrace.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#69. Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
Tim Ferriss
#70. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios ... We were all in it together.
Charles Bukowski
#71. Knowledge curses us, if we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. And it becomes difficult to share our knowledge with others because we can't readily re-create our listener's state of mind.
Chip Heath
#72. I am all for curses and superstition, but there's a point at which they start getting in the way. That point had arrived.
Tahir Shah
#73. Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!
Phyllis Bottome
#74. Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.
Gene Wolfe
#76. A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
Johannes Kepler
#77. I am a corpse bored with my own funeral. I live like a gypsy, only with less gold and maybe more curses.
Pete Wentz
#78. Their curses were not aimed at any definite target: they swore at such abstractions as God, the Officers, the Mothers of Others, with more music than meaning.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#79. A lot of people don't believe in curses.
A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.
Louis Sachar
#80. Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!
T. B. Joshua
#81. That bloody bastard! That thrice accursed son of a bitch!
Cornelia Funke
#82. Can't we just pursue our lives With our children and our wives Till that happy day arrives How do you ignore All the witches All the curses All the wolves, all the lies The false hopes, the goodbyes ...
Stephen Sondheim
#83. She said that I was highly gifted.
Are people lowly gifted?
Or medium gifted?
Or just gifted? It's possible that all labels are curses. Unless they're on cleaning products.
In my opinion, it's not really a great idea to see people as just one thing.
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#84. When people confront the past - their sins, wounds, and curses - they experience amazing joy, freedom, and spiritual growth. They move from just the assurance of their salvation to an experience of divine deliverance.
Chris Hodges
#85. Did he actually believe in this curse? A curse! He snorted. Deirdre stirred.
Impossible. Curses were for witches, spell casters and the weak-minded.
Jean M. Grant
#86. He did not playfully shake him, as was his wont, or murmur soft love curses; but he whispered in his ear.'As you love me, Buck. As you love me,' was what he whispered.
Call of the Wild
Jack London
#87. Think on blessings and not curses, beauty not ugliness, health not sickness. Meditate on wealth not poverty, success not failure, grace not disgrace!
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#88. Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious.
Martin Luther
#89. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Verna Hargrove
#90. Might have a couple of kinks to work through, Hale admitted then reached for her hand. As soon as he touched her, Kat knew there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes
they are the masters of their own fate. And right then Kat wouldn't have changed a thing.
Ally Carter
#91. The yells and yammering, croaking, gibbering and jabbering, howls and growls and curses, shrieking and shrinking that followed were beyond description. Several hundred wildcats and wolves being roasted slowly alive together would not have compared with it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#92. Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?"
He looked at her. "I believe in you.
Ally Carter
#93. Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren't real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad
Anthony Doerr
#94. Love between a man and a woman simply cannot work without love for God at the center of the relationship; by means of his curses, God mercifully brings
Richard D. Phillips
#95. The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.
John W. Gardner
#96. 17And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Anonymous
#97. That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.
George Gissing
#98. All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.
Wes Craven
#99. I believe the words parents speak to their children are of vital significance. They become either blessings or curses, depending on their content and connotations. They accompany you through your lifetime, caressing or pinching, building you up or tearing you down.
Adi Tsin Ben-Nun
#100. Interpretation though the filters of ideology has always been one of our race's curses.
Peter F. Hamilton
