Affliction Quote by Henry Mackenzie

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily,…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Darknesse and light divide the course of time, and oblivion snares with memory, a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember…

— Thomas Browne

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and…

— Walter Savage Landor

Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

— Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys…

— Anonymous

“And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

— Abraham Lincoln

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

— William Shakespeare

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

— Virgil

Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.

— John Angell James

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

— William Blake

The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.

— Lord Byron