Generational Curse Quotes

“So I guess it is in my genes, this melancholy I can never quite shake off. Carved with an invisible knife into my arborescent skin.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“My son, my son. When I had my son I would explain all that to him when he was starry enough to like understand. But then I knew he would not understand or would not want to understand at all and would do all the veshches I had done, yes perhaps even killing some poor starry forella surrounded with mewing kots and koshkas, and I would not be able to really stop him. And nor would he be able to stop his own son, brothers. And so it would itty on to like the end of the world...”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“If you want to break the cycle, you have to do something you’ve never done before.”
― Robin S. Baker

“It takes an astronomical amount of pain and courage to disrupt a familiar pattern”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“Our children are the future of our family, our bloodline. And the only hope we can offer them to survive the evil days to come is to introduce Jesus. The hope of a Christian is anchored only in Jesus Christ.”
― Vichell Gudes, Hope of the Future: Bless the Generations to Come

“Generational curses are not inherited through mystical means, but rather through the repetitive behaviors of ancestors that eventually manifest in the child's parents.”
― Deanna L. Lawlis

“What about parents who traumatize their children and then tell them to get over it...”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“Does a mother ever step back and see that it could be her doing, when she realizes that both her sons turned out to be their abusive father.

Is she more upset that she tolerated it from their dad OR mad that her daughters-in-law won't tolerate it from her sons.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“Evil is an incurable disease, and some people were just born with it - passed down through generations. It's in their DNA”
― Niedria D. Kenny