Afflicted Quotes

156 quotes by 137 authors

Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
H. L Mencken's Dictionary of the American Language supplies a long list of slang terms for being drunk, but the Irish are no slouches, either.… — Bill Barich
Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway version of the… — Tom Vanderbilt
In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but… — Joe Morgenstern
The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human… — Gore Vidal
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams
Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily… — John Kenneth Galbraith
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on… — John Galsworthy
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. — Princess Diana
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering… — Anne Lamott
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are… — Cormac McCarthy
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by… — Camille Paglia
It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. — Harvey Pekar
I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I… — Charles Spurgeon
I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four… — Jim Valvano
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,… — John Woolman
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a… — Virginia Woolf
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,… — Ronald Reagan
It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was… — Stephen King

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