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Quotes About Afflicted

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.
~ John Cornwell
I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.
~ Wess Stafford
perception of intention and emotion is irresistible; only people afflicted by autism do not experience it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good tidings to the afflicted; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted.
~ James Carroll
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~ Aeschylus
There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.
~ Alan Thicke
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
~ Walter Salles
The main reason I felt foolish and humiliated was because of - what had I called it to myself, only a few days previously? - 'the eternal hopefulness of the human heart'. And before that, 'the attraction of overcoming someone's contempt'. I don't think I normally suffer from vanity, but I'd clearly been more afflicted than I realised.
~ Julian Barnes
A woman who can heal the afflicted? A girl who looks into the future and wrestles with what she sees there? Yet are these things more difficult to accept than that all of existence came out of a single, random moment when cosmic gases exploded?
~ William Kent Krueger
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
~ Martin Luther
He says he is afflicted with headaches, at which I don't wonder, as it is a well-known fact that nature abhors a vacuum, and takes her own way of demonstrating it.
~ Alexander K. (Kelly) McClure
I snapped to consciousness with the incandescent realization that somewhere, deep in our dreams, or deep in unconsciousness, or deep in the afterlife, all conflicts and acrimonies are resolved. That it was consciousness that so unrelentingly afflicted us with suffering.
~ Rex Pickett
You forget I'm a goddess," she hissed. "Your goddess." And a bitch as well. But then, weren't all goddesses afflicted with bitchery?
~ Kresley Cole
And a bitch as well. But then, weren't all goddesses afflicted with bitchery?
~ Kresley Cole
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.
~ Thomas Paine
From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth.
~ Charles Chilton Moore
There's a Blarina merchant there named Ohn Gos who is afflicted with the sorry habit of listening sympathetically.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Young then quotes Calvin, "In a word, the Prophet here describes to us the inconceivable carefulness with which God unceasingly watches over our salvation, that we may be fully convinced that he will never forsake us, though we may be afflicted with great and numerous calamities."1
~ Jerry Bridges
So whenas fortune all her spite hath shown, Some blissful hours at last must needs appear; Else would afflicted wights oft-times despair . . .
~ Robert Galbraith
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and, above all, responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill.
~ Ronald Reagan
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
~ Janet Street-Porter
It is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink: Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
~ Anonymous
You're just tired, Father." "I am tired," the Duke agreed. "I'm morally tired. The melancholy degeneration of the Great Houses has afflicted me at last, perhaps. And we were such strong people once.
~ Frank Herbert
What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.
~ David Plouffe