Quotes About Affliction

Lostara was coming to believe that Tavore was afflicted with something else. She behaved as would a widow, the kind that then made mourning a way of life, a ritualized assembly of habits. The light of day had become a thing to turn away from. A gesture of invitation was answered with muttered regrets. And the sorrowing mask never left her face.

It is obvious that the elohim have contracted a soulscape malady.

Nagy tisztelettel adózom vágyaimnak és hajlamaimnak. Nem szeretem bajjal gyógyítani a bajt; gy?lölöm az olyan orvosságokat, amelyek jobban zaklatnak, mint a betegség. Ha rajtam a vesekÅ' átka és még az az átok is, hogy meg kell tartóztatnom magam az osztrigaevéstÅ'l, két nyavalyát kaptam egy helyett. A betegség az egyik oldalról csíp belénk, a szabály a másikról.

For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It welcomes every loosening of the social fabric, every confusion and affliction visited upon the world, for passion sees in such a disorder a vague hope of finding advantage for itself.

For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one another, to indulge in being simply and purely young, to share that sense of the world's affliction, that outgoing sorrow at the spectacle of Our Human Condition which anyone this age regards as reward or gratuity for having survived adolescence.

But a few choosing to venture deeper into the painful corridors of their affliction, found after a while that they could now grind and polish ever more exotic surfaces, hyperboloidial and even stranger, eventually including what we must term 'imaginary' shapes (which some preferred to term invisible).

The band played up and down valleys still in those days unknown except to a few real-estate visionaries, little crossroads places where one day houses'd sprawl and the rates of human affliction in all categories zoom.

You are my sickness

He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.

You can't imagine what it's like when every moment you're conscious you're in the most frightful pain.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.

It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwanted jollity that brightened the faces of the people. Into this festal season of the year - as it already was, and continued to be during the greater part of two centuries - the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.

If you have a problem and you can see it, then it's in the natural realm. As long as you can see it, you can use your faith and the Word of God to change it. We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak.... For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

Handsome as sin and more dangerous than the devil himself, Braden MacAllister had but one affliction in life. He adored all women.

If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected.

For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

For, if I imp my wing on thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.