Affliction Quotes

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. (Washington Irving)
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. View quote
Joseph Addison
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. View quote
Norman Mailer
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. View quote
James Baldwin
Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul. View quote
Emil Cioran
The real affliction of old age is remorse. View quote
Cesare Pavese
As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit. View quote
A.C. Cuza
The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
There is mercy in every place, And mercy, encouraging thought! Gives even affliction a grace And reconciles man to his lot. View quote
William Cowper
If we are to cherish freedom, and to guard it, we must remember what the alternative is: the bread of affliction and the bitter herbs of slavery. (Jonathan Sacks)
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
And I add this part here, to hint to whoever shall read it, that whenever they come to a true Sense of things, they will find Deliverance from Sin a much greater Blessing than Deliverance from Affliction. View quote
Daniel Defoe
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. View quote
H. G. Wells
Patience, then, is the best remedy against affliction. View quote
Plautus
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it. View quote
Milan Kundera
The common meaning of gratitude is to be thankful for benefits received. While this is important, I feel that the energy of gratitude is one of the most powerful attracting forces in the universe. A heart filled with Thanksgiving, even when appearances tell us that we are mired in scarcity, conflict, and affliction, moves us to a higher frequency in consciousness and we soon witness reality shining through the illusion. View quote
John Randolph Price
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. View quote
Barbara Deming
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction. (Christopher Love)
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. View quote
David Mallet
The furnace of affliction produces refinement in states as well as individuals. And the new Governments we are assuming in every part will require a purification from our vices, and an augmentation of our virtues, or there will be no blessings. View quote
John Adams
Tried myself in the school of affliction, by the loss of every form of connection which can rive the human heart, I know well, and feel what you have lost, what you have suffered, are suffering, and have yet to endure. The same trials have taught me that for ills so immeasurable, time and silence are the only medicines. I will not, therefore, by useless condolences, open afresh the sluices of your grief, nor, although mingling sincerely my tears with yours, will I say a word more where words are vain. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be found almost entirely in the study of literature, and so I believe that the splendour of historical writing is to be cherished with the greatest delight and given the pre-eminent and most glorious position. View quote
Henry of Huntingdon