Nemesis Quotes

• How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

  Erica Jong

  Forever, Blame Someone, May

  erica jong (1977). “how to save your own life”

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• In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
  Nemesis will have her dues,
  And all our struggles and our toils
  Tighter wind the giant coils.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Struggle, Fate, Wind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.212, The Floating Press

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• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Hands, People

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• My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Trying, Downfall, Ifs

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• The Fates are just: they give us but our own; Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fate, Hands, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.75

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• Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

  Roxane Gay

  Destiny, Born, Made

  Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in.

  Philip K. Dick

  Strength, Running, Strong

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

  David Lyons

  Superhero

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

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• Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

  Wil Wheaton

  Secret Identity, Should Have, Evil

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• History has a Nemesis for every sin.

  Theodor Mommsen

  Historical, Sin

  Theodor Mommsen (1864). “The History of Rome”, p.252

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• The difference between fear and panic is knowing what to do. If you have a reliable, effective solution then fear is an asset. You know what to do and fear just makes you do it faster. On the other hand, if you don't know what to do - or don't trust what you know - then you will freeze in terror, because you have no clear goal or way to get there. Fear helps, panic hinders. Fear is your savior, panic your nemesis.

  Marc MacYoung

  Knowing, Clear Goals, Hands

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• Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

  Mary Midgley

  Punishment, Patterns, Hubris

  Mary Midgley (2004). “The Myths We Live by”, p.104, Psychology Press

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• The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Reality, Men, Littles

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1981). “A life in our times: memoirs”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

  Sam Tanenhaus

  Memories, Allies, Betray

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• Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Men, May, Reproach

  As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78,

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Thinking, West Indies

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• Restlessness is my nemesis. It's hard to just chill and sit still.

  Mos Def

  Chill, Stills, Hard

  "Song: 'Hip Hop' ('Black on Both Sides')". 1999.

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• I think Jo Kwon is my nemesis, because he looks like me.

  Jay Park

  Thinking, Looks, Like Me

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• Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Retribution, Handmaids

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• To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

  William Quan Judge

  Karma, Spiritual, Men

  William Quan Judge (1975). “Echoes of the Orient: The Writings of William Quan Judge”

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• What is Providence for you may be Nemesis for me.

  Mason Cooley

  Destiny, May, Providence

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• I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis.

  Tina Fey

  Fire, Enemy, Fuel

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2010.

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• Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing low in your weep ship, with your tear scans and sob probes, and you would mark them. Women--and they can be wives, lovers, gaunt muses, fat nurses, obsessions, devourers, exes, nemeses--will wake and turn to these men and ask, with female need-to-know, "What is it?" And the men will say, "Nothing. No it isn't anything really. Just sad dreams.

  Martin Amis

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Martin Amis (2010). “The Information”, p.9, Random House

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• My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

  Brian Aldiss

  Fiction, Definitions, Hubris

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