Afflicted Quotes

156 quotes by 137 authors

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit. — Frank McCourt
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be… — Victor Hugo
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of… — William Goldman
Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is… — Joan Didion
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. — Finley Peter Dunne
Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones,… — Saint Augustine
His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,… — George Orwell
For in the end, he was trying to tell us what afflicted the people in 'Brave New World' was not that they were laughing instead… — Neil Postman
Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient… — Charles Dickens
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. — Charles Dickens
Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted… — Pablo Neruda
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on the road are… — Miguel de Cervantes
I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen. — Louise Rennison
Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and… — F B Meyer
Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with… — Barbara Kingsolver
â€Ž"Itâ€™s not as if I donâ€™t have anything to read; thereâ€™s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention… — Lewis Buzbee
I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits. — Darren Shan
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing — Doris Lessing
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment… — Joan Didion

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