Against Curse Words Quotes

In the stories of faith I grew up with, men were allowed a full range of emotion: King David, who calls on God to destroy his enemies. Absalom rising up against his father the king. Jonah stewing under his tree, looking out on the city God saved but he hates. Job crying out to God for his miserable fate.

But the rage of good women in the Bible is all in the subtext. Nowhere is there an Eve angry for being removed from Eden and the loss of her two sons. Where is Esther, where is her horror and pain watching the genocide of her people? Or Ruth, who followed her miserable mother-in-law to a foreign land and had to listen to that lady bitching as if she felt nothing?

The women allowed to have feelings in the Bible are always the villains. Michal sneering at David that he ought to put his clothes on and stop dancing like a naked fool. She is indicted for her words, but hadn't she just been married, abandoned, and then taken back by this man? Used as a political pawn, then ignored for Bathsheba. Then there is Sarah, who beat her maidservant Hagar, blaming her for what should have rightly fallen on the shoulders of Abraham. And Job's wife, who Biblical scholars condemn for telling her husband to curse God and die. But wasn't she just wishing him a swift end to the suffering that they had walked through hand in hand? ~ Lyz Lenz

Ignoring her snit, Michael reached over to clasp her hand, holding it possessively. She spoke no words, but returned his squeeze. Perhaps this cloudless, perfect afternoon would be their last day together as allies. The house on Winslow Street was becoming a curse, and she could see no way forward for them. She leaned against his side, and he responded by lowering his cheek to rest against the top of her head. ~ Elizabeth Camden

Human language, for us moderns, has swung in on itself, turning its back on the beings around us. Language is a human property, suitable only for communication with other persons. We talk to people; we do not speak to the ground underfoot. We've largely forgotten the incantatory and invocational use of speech as a way of bringing ourselves into deeper rapport with the beings around us, or of calling the living land into resonance with us. It is a power we still brush up against whenever we use our words to bless and to curse, or to charm someone we're drawn to. But we wield such eloquence only to sway other people, and so we miss the greater magnetism, the gravitational power that lies within such speech. The beaver gliding across the pond, the fungus gripping a thick trunk, a boulder shattered by its tumble down a cliff or the rain splashing upon those granite fragments -- we talk about such beings, the weather and the weathered stones, but we do not talk to them.

Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, we've overlooked the songful dimension of language so obvious to our oral [storytelling] ancestors. We've lost our ear for the music of language -- for the rhythmic, melodic layer of speech by which earthly things overhear us. ~ David Abram

In the land of Uz, there lived a man, righteous and God-fearing, and he had great wealth, so many camels, so many sheep and asses, and his children feasted, and he loved them very much and prayed for them. 'It may be that my sons have sinned in their feasting.' Now the devil came before the Lord together with the sons of God, and said to the Lord that he had gone up and down the earth and under the earth. 'And hast thou considered my servant Job?' God asked of him. And God boasted to the devil, pointing to his great and holy servant. And the devil laughed at God's words. 'Give him over to me and Thou wilt see that Thy servant will murmur against Thee and curse Thy name.' And God gave up the just man He loved so, to the devil. And the devil smote his children and his cattle and scattered his wealth, all of a sudden like a thunderbolt from heaven. And Job rent his mantel and fell down upon the ground and cried aloud, 'Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return into the earth; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord for ever and ever.'

Fathers and teachers, forgive my tears now, for all my childhood rises up again before me, and I breathe now as I breathed then, with the breast of a little child of eight, and I feel as I did then, awe and wonder and gladness. The camels at that time caught my imagination, and Satan, who talked like that with God, and God who gave His servant up to destruction, and His servant cryi ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space. ~ Joanna Scott

As words have an effective power of their own, curses reported against someone might turn against the speaker. ~ Gustave Flaubert

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. ~ Bryan Callen

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find. ~ Marilyn Manson

I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Racism is to the current era what unAmericanism was to the Fifties: a curse word that provides a handy substitute for logical thought. ~ Steve Sailer

I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Take care with your words, Jacquetta, especially in cursing. Only say the things you mean, make sure you lay your curse on the right man. For be very sure that when you put such words out in the world they can overshoot-like an arrow, a curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly. ~ Philippa Gregory

Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain. ~ Gail Caldwell

Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate. ~ Khalil Gibran

I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words. ~ Wislawa Szymborska

I'm not carrying it anymore. I spoke the words aloud, used my words, and broke the curse. ~ Mhairi McFarlane

A lie is the worst blot on all your good deeds, as God's curse upon the liars, how many people are alive bearing the burden and gather the curse. ~ Ehsan Sehgal

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants. ~ Cofer Black

The curse of men can't make me defiled.
I defile myself if I curse men by intention. ~ Toba Beta

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said ... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings ... ~ Lauren Kate

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs. ~ Jimmy Webb

In other words, for every 10 enemy you kill you bring on 20 new recruits to their anti-coalition cause then essentially you are working against yourself. ~ John Abizaid

The seasons are colliding together, storms are destroying lives, and love is a dangerous curse.
-The Vangeretta Curse ~ Christina Mobley

Unlike most other language  -  which is stored in cerebral cortex, the brain's center for higher learning  -  curse words are stored in the limbic system, our most basic, lizard brain level. ~ Chelsea G. Summers

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently. ~ Justin Halpern

Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times. ~ Lange Weile

If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that. ~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you. ~ Amy Neftzger

Ill wishing is a curse on the woman who does it, as well as the one who receives it. When you put such words out in the world, they can overshoot-like an arrow. A curse can go beyond your target and harm another. A wise woman curses very sparingly. I would hope that you never curse at all."
"Bless you my daughter, and may you remain pure in heart and get your desires. ~ Philippa Gregory

Your circumstances will line up with your words ... Words are like seeds, they have creative power ... The more you talk about it the more you call it in ... Your words will give life to what you are saying ... You can change your world by simply changing your words ... You can use your words to bless your life or curse your life. ~ Joel Osteen

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right. ~ Ernest Borgnine

The truth actually lies mostly in three words - God bless you, I love you, I adore you, I trust you, I believe you, I mistrust you, and finally God curse you, I hate you and talak talak talak. Only the frauds and politicians speak beyond the three truthful words. ~ Amit Abraham

I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words. ~ George Carlin

It's all words and only words, and beyond the words there's nothing ... a word, which, like all the others, can only be explained by more words, but since the words we use to explain things, successfully or not, will, in turn, have to be explained, our conversation will lead nowhere, the mistaken and the true will alternate, like some kind of curse, and we'll never know what's right and what's wrong. - subhro, the mahout, Pg. 49 ~ Jose Saramago

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me. ~ Fred Durst

September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so. ~ Catherynne M Valente

Funny things, words. Big words, small words; words that are bigger on the inside and packed tight with feeling. They can make us fall in love, and they can break our hearts and we're powerless against them. ~ Maggie Harcourt

I curse Microsoft at least once a day. I only curse Apple every other day. As I see it, that's a 100 percent improvement. ~ Sam Kass

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which. ~ Robert Sheckley

I bless you with a curse to always remain busy ~ Amit Abraham

I will never again cast a curse on myself. ~ Rob Brezsny

I am aware that humans believe they are the sole owners of this curse, but all creatures love, Dieter. Love is our one shared madness, our one shared burden. All creatures are driven against sense by it, and even the lowest ant will die madly for her queen. ~ B. Justin Shier

Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Everything that is given to us in life is either a blessing or a curse. ~ Seth Adam Smith

Religion has been a curse on the world and humanity will never know freedom until this curse has been exorcised. It is the curse of ignorance, which has cast its dark shadow over thousands of years of human suppression. ~ David Icke

You cannot learn to curse like an American. ~ Nathan Englander

A string of very un-angelic curse words come to mind. ~ Cynthia Hand

Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes down on himself. Evil-doers again resemble a man who stirs the dust against the wind; the dust is never raised without doing him injury. Thus, the wise will never be hurt, but the curse is sure to destroy the evil-doers themselves. ~ Gautama Buddha

You will curse your blessings by not being grateful for what is already yours. ~ Germany Kent

In a world that was created by God's words, words are not symbols. They are things. You call a demon, you make a demon. You curse at God and you risk dying. ~ Frederick Reiken

If in madness of delusion, anyone shall lift his parricidal hand against this blessed union, the arms of thousands will be raised to save it, and the curse of millions will fall upon the head which may have plotted its destruction. ~ Andrew Jackson

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents. ~ Daisy Fuentes

Curses. Jesus. It took all kinds. There wasn't anything to a curse but words. Just like blessings and prayers and all the rest of it. People used words to try to change what they should be changing with their own two hands. And if the problem was too big to fix, no words called up into the air would make a lick of difference. ~ Mindy Mejia

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself. ~ Philip Berrigan

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it. ~ J. Reuben Clark

...we know the curse that has been laid upon us--not the curse of bondage, but rather the curse of neglect. This country does not see, nor seek to remedy, the suffering of the Negro, and we are taxed to bear the wrath of white inadequacy. ~ Justina Ireland

Unforgivable Curses are the three most powerful and sinister spells known to the wizarding world, and are tools of the Dark Arts. They were first classified as "Unforgivable" in 1717. They are the Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra, the Cruciatus Curse, Crucio, and the Imperius Curse, Imperio. ~ George Duckett

Words are too precious to throw around carelessly. I don't need to have a supernatural power over them to know that. I've seen it. Words demand respect. They are beautiful; they are terrible. They are a gift and a curse. I will never forget what they can do.

Because words have cost me everything. ~ Lynette Noni

When you curse anything bad,
you just give birth to the new one. ~ Toba Beta

The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy. ~ Horace Walpole

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

Don't curse the snow, curse yourself for moving to a place with snow. ~ Ben Tolosa

For the curse of Cain, the curse of being an outcast and a wanderer over the face of the earth has been removed ... ~ Abba Hillel Silver

No one can curse and bless anybody at the same time. ~ Toba Beta

It is the curse to search you in every person I meet, the curse with no cure ~ Ehddah

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked. ~ Jimi Hendrix

The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down! ~ Kaza Kingsley

You've never heard of the Truscott Curse?" Asked the old lady, slowly rocking her body from side to side as if she were about to start dancing.
Spanelli looked at her puzzlingly. "The Truscott Curse? I don't understand what you mean."
"The curse girl. Don't you know that every child who's ever lived in that house has disappeared? ~ Elle Alexander

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse ~ Benjamin Franklin

Bless you with the curse to remain busy always. ~ Amit Abraham

If you want to get rid of the perceived meaning of curse words, you'll have to get rid of the feelings which bring their use, and that's not going to happen. ~ Orlando Winters

Some called it Eve's curse but she thought that was stupid, and the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam, who as soon as there was any trouble, blamed it all on her. ~ Margaret Atwood

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other. ~ Sue Monk Kidd

A nomad with many more wildernesses to explore – and it is so much easier to travel away from things than towards them. But it's the words that are a curse – because he cannot utter a simple goodbye. ~ Alden Bell

ALL LOSSES IN THIS WORLD ARE DUE TO A LACK OF ABILITY. IF YOU WANT TO CURSE SOMETHING, CURSE YOUR OWN WEAKNESS ~ Sui Ishida

Charlie cursed in English as there are no really good Navajo curse words. ~ R. Allen Chappell

Enough wars have been started over this face. My face. My curse - and my mother's curse, and her mother's curse, and so on all the way back to the first woman to ever wear this face. Helen of Troy. ~ Josephine Angelini

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil. ~ Friedrich Schiller

The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. ~ Mark Twain

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise 1 in the primer of minor poetry. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Our talent is not a gift, rather a curse… We are to be scorned by our own society, feared that we might use our powers against them. What can be worse to a person than to be shunned away by their own kind? For a skill so grand, we pay a huge price – we remain alone in this vast world. ~ Tamuna Tsertsvadze

What if I am a curse?" "Then you're the prettiest and nicest curse I know. ~ V.C. Andrews

A people's wrath voiced abroad bringeth grave Danger, no less than public curse pronounced. ~ Aeschylus

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. ~ Winston Churchill

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. ~ Rick Yancey

The only man I knew who could make a curse sound like a caress. ~ Michael Foot

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

May you never find satisfaction with another woman."
"Did you just curse me? ~ Zoe Forward

The whole of religion has been one uniform curse to the human race ... ~ Richard Carlile

Emotions are the curse of logic. ~ Frank Herbert

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer. ~ Irving Penn

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure. ~ Julianna Baggott

Muslim leaders ordered it cut to pieces to show their contempt for worldly wealth. They destroyed countless treasures, including the entire royal library. In an account of this conquest written by the tenth-century Persian poet Ferdowsi, a general laments: "Curse this world, curse this time, curse this fate / That uncivilized Arabs have come to force me to be Muslim. ~ Stephen Kinzer

What so pure, which envious tongues will spare?
Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair,
With matchless impudence they style a wife,
The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life;
A bosom serpent, a domestic evil,
A night invasion, and a mid-day devil;
Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard,
But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard. ~ Alexander Pope

Are you really reading that, or are you just trying to show off?" I asked, lowering myself into the seat.
He looked over the paper, opened his mouth, and a torrent of foreign words flew out.
"Okay, sorry, just asking. Wait, how many of those were curse words? ~ Myra McEntire

Feeling harder to be oneself might be a curse of popularity. ~ Toba Beta

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse. ~ Bertrice Small

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything. ~ Holly Black

Followin' the trail on the old treasure map,
I came to the spot that said "Dig right here."
And four feet down my spade struck wood
Just where the map said a chest would appear.
But carved in the side were written these words:
"A curse upon he who disturbs this gold."
Signed, Morgan the Pirate, Scourge of the Seas.
I read these words and my blood ran cold.
So here I sit upon untold wealth
Tryin' to figure which is worse:
How much do I need this gold?
And how much do I need this curse? ~ Shel Silverstein

I believe in blessings," he replied, against my temple, "I believe that for every curse, there is a blessing. ~ Anne Fortier