Quotes About Affliction

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim —

Boredom is a horrible misfortune.  Let go, allow yourself to have fun.  Be silly at your own expense.  Any one of these ideas can cure the affliction of what to do when you're bored.  Share your experience to break the boredom of a friend.

The suffering of mental illness, whether for the afflicted or for their families, is typically marked by isolation. When people desperately need to experience the love and empathy of their fellow human beings and to know that their Creator has not abandoned them, many reach out and are shocked to touch the church's painfully cold shoulder.

Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.

Hitler has always had the capacity to reflect whatever phobia afflicts the person who stares at him

Above all else, he had to show control, for what afflicted him was so uncontrollable. He had to appear completely lucid—sane within the boundaries of his memory.

Just about the only affliction Mesmerism seemed powerless to cure was the one that plagued Dickens the most: asthma. So he found relief the old-fashioned way: He took opium.

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.

A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

There's a Blarina merchant there named Ohn Gos who is afflicted with the sorry habit of listening sympathetically.

We are afflicted with a darkness of the soul and fall in love with our pain.

The migraine is a beast from Hell, a bone-crushing, brain-twisting, heart-rending, apocalyptic scourge—an insult to all that's holy.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Hijo, ¿por qué te has portado así con nosotros? Mira cómo tu padre y yo llenos de aflicción te hemos andado buscando. 49 Y él les respondió: ¿Cómo es que me buscaban? ¿No sabían que yo debo emplearme en las cosas que miran al servicio de mi Padre?

Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

There are many people who, when God's hand is out against them, will say they are troubled for their sin, but the truth is, it is the affliction that troubles them rather than their sin. Their heart greatly deceives them in this very thing.