To love the world is to be afflicted.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

— Gautama Buddha

It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted.

— William Blake

What single organization has done more for the orphan than the Catholic Church? What one, through hospital and asylum, more for the sick and…

— David Josiah Brewer

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Jeremy Taylor

Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst…

— John Wesley

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

— Princess Diana

“The capacity to pay attention to an afflicted person is something very rare, very difficult; it is nearly a miracle. It is a miracle.…

— Simone Weil

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good…

— Michael Mann

“The Gospel is meant to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”

— Garrison Keillor

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

— Thomas Brooks

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.

— Barbara Tuchman

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy,…

— Phillips Brooks

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what [a] friend of mine calls "the fleas of…

— William Styron

“Feeble, I’d become afflicted And my agony had no closure, To love I’d become immune Despite my abundant exposure”

— Joy Marino