"There are moments when, faced with our lack……" — Jules de Goncourt

More Afflicts Quotes

This quote is filed under Afflicts Quotes, one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will… — Joseph Hall
• Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th' ligislachure,… — Finley Peter Dunne
• Now this is a mystery to a carnal heart. They can see no such thing; perhaps they think God loves… — Jeremiah Burroughs
• I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing.… — Fred Saberhagen
• The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware… — Stephen Vizinczey
• It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. — Agnes Repplier
• It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) "individuals," because in actuality moderns… — Kenny Smith
• I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of… — Pope Francis
• Anger is one of the most common and destructive delusions, and it afflicts our mind almost every day. To solve… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
• The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to… — Fay Weldon

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