Quotes About Affliction

It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!

Madness is however an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of SURPRISE.

My study of history had taught me that humanity has always been full of illusions about its own possibilities, and that ambitious leaders have led their people into deep affliction more often than wide empire. Then

Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

I ask: was every story ever written in the world a story of affliction?

Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.

The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.

Sometimes I feel it right under my ribs. In my throat. Under my breastbone. It moves around. Sometimes it lodges in my lower back, and I slump in my chair. It's an ache. It feels a little bit like having a mobile tumor or blood clot or kidney stone.

Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves them when he prospers them and makes them rich, but they think God loves them not when he afflicts them. That is a mystery, but grace instructs men in that mystery, grace enables men to see love in the very frown of God's face, and so come to receive contentment.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.

They say tedium is a sickness that afflicts the inert, or only attacks those who have nothing to do. However, this affliction of the soul is subtles than that: it attacks those with a predisposition towards it and is less lenient on those who work or pretend to work (which comes to the same thing anyway) than on the truely inert.

Needless to say, the realization had never penetrated to Fat's mind that Sherri sought out this kind of abode. Her dingy surroundings came as a result of her affliction, not as a cause; she could recreate these conditions wherever she went—which Fat eventually discovered.

Inezie ci consolano perché inezie ci affliggono.»

This also is for good. Everything that the Merciful One does, He does for good. If this is good in His eyes, how much more so in mine. Blessed is God (Baruch HaShem). Praise God. God-willing. Such was God's will. With God's help. May this [affliction] be an atonement for me.

the juvenile delinquent or JD being a conflation of race and age into a condition which gave those so afflicted a magic air of special danger.

His heart ached as if eaten away by poisons.

nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, it also holds true that nothing is more terrifying than to be divested of a crutch.

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