Quotes & Sayings About Gifts And Curses

What are the gifts given to we who live Below?"
"Long life, health, strength, and happiness."
"What is the curse of those who live Above?"
"Short life, illness, weakness, and misery."
"Is this fair?"
"It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below."
"Then give thanks. — Ally Condie

Women's liberation is one thing, but the permeation of anti-male sentiment in post-modern popular culture - from our mocking sitcom plots to degrading commercial story lines - stands testament to the ignorance of society. Fair or not, as the lead gender that never requested such a role, the historical male reputation is quite balanced.
For all of their perceived wrongs, over centuries they've moved entire civilizations forward, nurtured the human quest for discovery and industry, and led humankind from inconvenient darkness to convenient modernity. Navigating the chessboard that is human existence is quite a feat, yet one rarely acknowledged in modern academia or media. And yet for those monumental achievements, I love and admire the balanced creation that is man for all his strengths and weaknesses, his gifts and his curses. I would venture to say that most wise women do. — Tiffany Madison

Gifts become curses when they're not given their due respect. — Dannika Dark

But some gifts are worse than curses, and the dark side of the gift is that they know. The lost, the stragglers, those who should not have been taken but were, the innocents, the struggling, tormented shades, the gathering ranks of the dead, they know. And they come. — John Connolly