#curse

Sometimes I feel as if I'm cursed. A slow, hungry curse that has worked its way across my entire life, stripping me of everything I love. ↗

— Morgan Rhodes

#love #life

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ↗

— Saint Basil

#abundance #away #brings #curses #drive

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#curse #get #idealism #into #materialism

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#been #blessing #brain #came #curse

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#candle #curse #darkness #light #than

I feel there is a curse on rock stars. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#feel #i #i feel #rock #rock stars

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. ↗

— Anacreon

#brings #brothers #cursed #enslaved #love

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#curse #dorian-gray #gods #good-looks #inspirational

What about you? What do you do?” I needed to ask questions, draw him out. I needed to find out all the information I could. My voice sounded strong and smooth, but my hands were shaking. I put them in my lap so he couldn’t see. “I prey on innocent villagers and terrify their children,” he said with a nasty smile. “And sometimes when I’m feeling really evil, I read books or paint. ↗

— Kate Avery Ellison

#curious #funny #kate-avery-ellison #sarcasm #the-curse-girl

Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing. ↗

— Rebecca Johns

#blessing #curse #beauty