Stricken Quotes

107 Stricken quotes by 97 unique authors

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
I grew up in a poverty-stricken neighborhood, but I didn't really know I was a deprived, poverty-stricken child until the media made me aware of… — Ving Rhames
Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for… — Pauline Collins
Her [Rosalind Franklin] devotion to research showed itself at its finest in the last months of her life. Although stricken with an illness which she… — John Desmond Bernal
Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the… — Gerard K. O'Neill
TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were:… — Ambrose Bierce
The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is… — Chanakya
The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the… — Eugene O'Neill
No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves. — Rachel Carson
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up. — Grace King
A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by… — Marc Ian Barasch
The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of… — Edna Ferber
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. — Jack Kerouac
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day;… — Lewis Mumford
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather… — Terry Pratchett
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. — George Bernard Shaw
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the… — Marya Hornbacher
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being… — Marcel Proust
Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing… — Thomas Hardy
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster… — John Steinbeck
Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so… — Charles Bukowski

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