Ordeal Quotes

85 Ordeal quotes by 77 unique authors

• Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have… — Joseph Campbell
• She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state… — Margaret Sanger
• Among the worst examples is that of the Alberni Indian Residential School (British Columbia) where, during the 1920s, children caught talking Indian suffered the hideous… — Ward Churchill
• Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction… — Walter Lippmann
• The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive — Susan Smith
• A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal, — Howard Barker
• Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience. — Bruce Fordyce
• People who thought of my journey as a physical ordeal or an act of courage... missed the point. Courage and physical endurance were no more… — Ted Simon
• Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. — William James
• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press… — Kieran Culkin
• Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal. — Maurice Saatchi
• Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal. — Peg Kehret
• Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts… — Saint Augustine
• The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil. — Thomas Malthus
• Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened… — Steve Buyer
• I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel… — Belle Boyd
• I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt… — James Toney
• Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure… — Ramona Koval
• Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed… — John Fante
• The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me. — Jarvis Cocker

Who Wrote These Ordeal Quotes

77 authors contributed a total of 85 Ordeal Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Ordeal Quotes by Winston Churchill
• 3 Ordeal Quotes by Joseph Campbell
• 2 Ordeal Quotes by Yann Martel
• 2 Ordeal Quotes by Unknown Author
• 2 Ordeal Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi
• 2 Ordeal Quotes by John Berryman
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Zane Grey
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Yasmina Khadra
• 1 Ordeal Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Ordeal Quote by William Saroyan
• 1 Ordeal Quote by William Orville Douglas
• 1 Ordeal Quote by William Manchester
• 1 Ordeal Quote by William James
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Ward Churchill
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Walter Lippmann
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Vladimir Nabokov
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Viggo Mortensen
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Thomas Malthus
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Ted Simon
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Taylor Swift
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Susan Sontag
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Susan Smith
• 1 Ordeal Quote by Steve Buyer