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Quotes About Curse

He is alone and free, yet powerless and afraid. The newly won freedom appears as a curse; he is free from the sweet bondage of paradise, but he is not free to govern himself, to realize his individuality.
~ Erich Fromm
The newly won freedom appears as a curse; he is free from the sweet bondage of paradise, but he is not free to govern himself, to realize his individuality.
~ Erich Fromm
Ambition had been the curse of my husband's life. He wanted to attain a position where he would be honored and respected. He wanted wealth.
~ Erik Larson
Excreting is the curse that threatens madness because it shows man his abject finitude, his physicalness, the likely unreality of his hopes and dreams.
~ Ernest Becker
I'm glad I remembered to make it an order, he thought. That helps him out. That takes some of the curse off. I hope it does, anyway.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Remember," she repeated, "magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress. It all depends on who uses magic, how they use it, and to what purpose. And magic is everywhere. All around us. Easily accessible. It is enough to stretch out one's hand. See? I'm stretching out my hand.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Remember,' she repeated, 'magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress. It all depends on who uses magic, how they use it, and to what purpose.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
You had some bad luck," he said. "Of all the temples in Gelibol and the Nimnar Valley, you picked the Church of Coram Agh Tera, the Lionheaded Spider. In order to lift the curse thrown by the priestess of Coram Agh Tera
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Estaría bien que se pudiera explicar la crueldad de los gobernantes con mutaciones o maldiciones.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Remember," she repeated, "magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress. It all depends on who uses magic, how they use it, and to what purpose. And magic is everywhere. All around us. Easily accessible. It is enough to stretch out one's hand.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
La magia è Caos, Arte e Scienza. È maledizione, benedizione e progresso. Tutto dipende da chi si serve della magia, come e con quale scopo. Ma la magia è ovunque. Ovunque intorno a noi. Facilmente accessibile. Basta allungare la mano.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Have you heard of the Curse of the Black Sun?" "But of course. Except that it was called the Mania of Mad Eltibald after the wizard who started the lark and caused dozens of girls from good, even noble, families to be murdered or imprisoned in towers. They were supposed to have been possessed by demons, cursed, contaminated by the Black Sun
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Remember," she repeated, "magic is Chaos, Art and Science. It is a curse, a blessing and progress. It all depends on who uses magic, how they use it, and to what purpose. And magic is everywhere. All around us. Easily accessible.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Within hours, all the Iron Wolves were starting to curse inventively.
~ Andy Remic
Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.
~ Angela Carter
Jani understood that all Freedom needed was to trust -- and, eventually, to love. And it was love -- the love that glowed in Freedom's beautiful, expressive eyes -- that had freed her. She had overcome her past, and released herself from her own curse.
~ Angela Dorsey
May God punish you for this first of your sins!" Hossein Beyg shouted, his words falling on the room like a curse. "May you fear for your life every day you are Shah. May your children be murdered without mercy, just as you have condemned me. Men of the court, take heed! You will be next if you don't root out this viper in your midst.
~ Anita Amirrezvani
Humans, being the only race to pay for living on this planet, have over the centuries become dependent on money. But what if money becomes a curse? Just like too little money can become a problem, so can too much money.
~ Shweta Basu Prasad
I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay.
~ Alice Hoffman
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
~ Ezra Pound
If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.
~ Michael Winslow
It is the individual mainly which draws me—the struggling, blundering, passionate insect vainly striving against the river of Life and seeking to divert the channel of events to suit himself—breaking his fangs on the iron collar of Fate and sinking into final defeat with the froth of a curse on his lips
~ Robert E. Howard
These things be deeds of some power of evil. The lords of darkness have laid a curse upon the country. A strong man is needed to combat Satan and his might. Therefore I go, who have defied him many a time.
~ Robert E. Howard
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults.
~ Robert Fanney