Cursed Quotes - Page 9

• No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Men, May

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Purgatorio”, p.54, Penguin

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• Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Ends, Wander

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.110, Canongate Books

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• Life is rich it's full of gifts-the more you have the more there is to share. You know its men with small souls who think there isn't enough to go around. They fight to keep their little grasp on their tiny piece of the world and they're always angry because they're never satisfied. They're cursed with a hole they can never fill. They may get things done but they can never keep what they've achieved.

  Phyllis Curott

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Feelings are the fine instruments which shape decision-making in an animal cursed and blessed with intelligence, and the freedom which is its corollary. They are signals directing us toward goodness, safety, pleasure, and group survival.

  Willard Gaylin

  Blessed, Animal, Safety

  Willard Gaylin (1992). “The male ego”, Viking Pr

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• I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people.

  Dirk Benedict

  Voice, People, Example

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• Words are as they are taken, and things are as they are used. There are even cursed blessings.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Blessing, Used

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.73

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• Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

  Lucian

  Men, Greed, Gold

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• The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved - cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pain, Heaven, Religion

  "The Great Infidels" by Robert Green Ingersoll, 1881.

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• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist.

  James Lee Burke

  Believe, Home, Ignorance

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves about what's true and are wrong about what we conclude is right. And this man, who in a flash sees the universe naked, creates a philosophy or dreams up a religion; and the philosophy spreads and the religion propagates, and those who believe in the philosophy begin to wear it as a suit they don't see, and those who believe in the religion put it on as a mask they soon forget.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

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• Cursed be he that moves my bones.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Memorable, Bones

  Epitaph on his tomb at Stratford-on-Avon, supposed to have been chosen by himself.

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• Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.

  Andre Simon

  Strong, Food, Blessed

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• And you, Prince Elric? She attracted the albino's wandering attention. Do you know his story? Elric shook his head. I only know, he said, that he is a shape-changer and, that most cursed of souls, a person of rare goodness and sanity. Imagine such torment as is his!

  Michael Moorcock

  Soul, Attention, Stories

  Michael Moorcock (2010). “Elric Swords and Roses”, p.139, Del Rey

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• At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

  M. John Harrison

  Girl, Heart, Insecure

  M. John Harrison (2007). “Viriconium”, p.34, Spectra

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• I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.

  Derek Landy

  Stupidity, Affliction, Cures

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• It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

  Cassandra Clare

  Caring, Would Be, Odd

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• A Half-Blood of the eldest gods, Shall reach sixteen against all odds And see the world in endless sleep The Hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap A single choice shall end his days Olympus to preserve or raze.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Sleep, Odds

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.161, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Here and there among men, there are those who pause in the hurried rush to listen to the call of a life that is more real... He who sees and hears too much is cursed for a dreamer, a fanatic, or a fool, by the mad mob who, having eyes, see not, ears and hear not, and refuse to understand.

  Harold Bell Wright

  Real, Eye, Men

  Harold Bell Wright (1907). “The Shepherd of the Hills”

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• She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

  Rick Yancey

  Feelings, Hated

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Monstrumologist: The Isle of Blood”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.

  Claire LaZebnik

  Thinking, Phones, Rocks

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• One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance, the party, the picnic, the excursion is to be diminished. To have an invitation and then not to be able to go -- oh cursed spite! Now I do not care the rottenest fig whether I receive an invitation or not. After years of illusion, I finally decided I was missing nothing by Not Going. I no longer care whether I am missing anything or not.

  J. B. Priestley

  Party, Years, Missing

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• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Long, Holocaust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

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• Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

  Edmund Waller

  Rain, Shepherds, Sailor

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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• The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Punishment, Community, Criminals

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.115, Oxford University Press

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• I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it

  Margery Allingham

  Nature, Blessed, People

  Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

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