Curse Quotes - Page 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

  Blessing, Agony, Stronger

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• What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

  Louis Sullivan

  Art, Book, Hypocrisy

  "Kindergarten Chats: (revised 1918) and Other Writings". Book by Louis Sullivan, Ch. 36: Another City, 1947.

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• Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse

  Ben Harper

  Blessing, Trying, Firsts

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• No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Girl, Kings, Men

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

  Lyman Abbott

  Children, Eye, Hair

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• Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

  Philip Massinger

  Mean, Blessing, Greatness

  1627 The Great Duke of Florence, act1, sc.1.

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• I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England [sic] for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.

  Enoch Powell

  Betrayal, Weakness, Depth

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 47), 1999.

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• The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance and self-centeredness which naturally alienates all old friends. Next comes a great desire for and belief in the importance of money above all else, a loss of the normal sense of humor and proportion and finally, in extreme cases, the abandonment of all previous standards of moral value.

  Elinor Glyn

  Loss, Self, California

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• Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion a stench in the nostrils of Christendom; it makes Southern politics a libel upon all the principles of republicanism; it makes Southern literature a travesty upon the honorable profession of letters.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Southern, Literature, Slavery

  George Fitzhugh, Hinton Rowan Helper (1960). “Ante-bellum writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on slavery”

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• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Strong, Drinking, Order

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• By the very constitution of our nature moral evil is its own curse.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Evil, Moral, Constitution

  Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Discourses on the Christian revelation, viewed in connection with the modern astronomy: To which are added, Discourses illustrative of the connection between theology & general science”, p.328

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• Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you?

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Mean, Blessing

  Alexander Maclaren (1908). “The Book of Esther”

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• 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

  Blessed, Blessing, Apples

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. But a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. The only salvation for man is in the union of the two as Christianity unites them.

  Mark Hopkins

  Men, Two, Adequate

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• The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Beauty, Cost, Facts

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• Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life.

  Simonides of Ceos

  Wife, Earth, Human Life

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• The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

  Olive Schreiner

  Way, Jew, Written

  Olive Schreiner (2005). “Words in Season: The Public Writings with Her Own Remembrances Collected for the First Time”, Penguin Global

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• Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Years, White, Black

  Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.102, Applewood Books

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• It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.

  Tina Fey

  Harder

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• Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

  T. D. Jakes

  Blessing, Ifs

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• I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. Youve 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

  Home, Blessing, Thinking

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• That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

  Fighting, Misery, Horror

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• Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Memories, Loss

  Song: The River, Album: The River, 1980

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• That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

  George Gissing

  Poverty, Bitterness, Generous

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.200, The Floating Press

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• As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Doors, Chloe, Curse Words

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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