Affliction Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Self-blame is usually a way of avoiding something more hideous anyway, something you’re willing to be punished for but unwilling to change, or even…

— Lewis Nordan

If you were not full of self-pity you would soon observe that we ourselves are to blame for all this evil, because we refuse…

— Tito Colliander

“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil…

— Alain de Botton

“The belief in an independently existent self is a mistaken perception with serious consequences, for all afflictions are rooted in a fundamental misconception about…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

— Manly Hall

Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.

— Barry Eisler

“Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.”

— Patrick Ness

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…

— Anne Lamott

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for…

— Aristotle

“Blaming yourself is like a curse eating you from within, a rogue virus, cancerous and poisonous. It will drive you mad if you let…

— David Estes

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

— Francis Atterbury

We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human. That we can…

— Moby