Ordeal Quotes

85 Ordeal quotes by 77 unique authors

• I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,… — Sylvia Plath
• The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you. — Muriel Barbery
• Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity. — C.D. Payne
• I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world… — Daphne du Maurier
• I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian… — John Berryman
• Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92) — Joseph Campbell
• My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I… — Stephenie Meyer
• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian… — Vladimir Nabokov
• We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are… — Alexandre Dumas-fils
• Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle into an easy… — Emily Giffin
• NOOOO!" On the screen, a woman's eyes bugged almost out of her head, and I tried not to scream. Tried not to scream in exasperation,… — James Patterson
• It would be difficult to tell," Wulf said. "I've always been a romantic. I've seen Casablanca twice, and I sat through the entire ordeal of… — Janet Evanovich
• But I ask you, those of you who are with us all day, not to stress yourselves out because of us. When you do this,… — Naoki Higashida
• The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous duty is garbed… — Germaine Greer
• I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place. — Amanda Lindhout
• These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. — Jacques Derrida
• I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. — Maria Mitchell
• How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises… — Rene Cassin
• The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for… — William Orville Douglas
• Any ordeal that you can survive as a human being is an improvement in your character, and usually an improvement in your life. — Viggo Mortensen

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