Quotes About Curse

The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

To have a good memory is to be both blessed and cursed Ã¢â'¬Â¦

For not many men . . . can love a friend who fortune prospers without envying; and about the envious brain cold poison clings and doubles all the pain life brings him. His own woundings he must nurse, and feel another's gladness like a curse.

A curse burns bright on crime.

You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

He would sooner live a life of endless blessing than one of dying curse, and after all, it was in how you chose to see things that the narrow border between Hell and Paradise was traced.

He would sooner live a life of endless blessing than one of undying curse, and after all, it was in how you chose to see things that the narrow border between Hell and Paradise was traced.

Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.

It is difficult to establish where the effects of a boon end and the influence of a curse begins.

In the karmic worldview, you are queer because of karma, and it may be a boon or curse. In the one-life worldview, you are queer because you choose to be so, to express your individuality or to defy authority (Greek mythology) or God/Devil wills it so (biblical mythology).

Nothing in the Hindu world happens spontaneously. Every event is a reaction to the past, the result of a curse or a boon. Fortune is predestined. Misfortune fated.

and outgrow hunger. One of the rishis I made fun of cursed me that since the

The migraine is a beast from Hell, a bone-crushing, brain-twisting, heart-rending, apocalyptic scourge—an insult to all that's holy.

The temptation of Christ was harder, unspeakably harder, than the temptation of Adam; for Adam carried nothing in himself which could have given the tempter a claim and power over him. But Christ bore in himself the whole burden of the flesh, under the curse, under condemnation; and yet his temptation was henceforth to bring help and salvation to all flesh.

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

L'amore? È una maledizione che piomba addosso e resistere è impossibile.

When it comes to the question of the mummy's curse, I am afraid that my sympathies are entirely with the mummy.

Samo?a je sudbina i prokletstvo svakog ko raspolaže mo?ima koje nema ljudska ve?ina.

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

when we think the curse for violating God's Law is too severe, it's because we don't understand God or the nature of sin. God