Quotes of: Afflict Keyword

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.

Anonymous

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

William Arthur Ward

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Robert Frost

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Sextus Empiricus

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

Mel Gibson

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Saint Ignatius

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

David Viscott

It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.

Harvey Pekar

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

Charles H. Spurgeon

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

Jessye Norman

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth

Jeremy Taylor

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Walter Salles

That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

Country Girl

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Robert Burns

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

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles Sumner

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

Jean de la Bruyere

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Robert South

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

Jean de la Bruyere