Quote by Lucille Clifton Download Open image ““I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.”” — Lucille Clifton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You can’t comfort the afflicted,” the note read, “without afflicting the comfortable.” — Christopher Andersen Copy Share Image
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sometimes comforting the afflicted does require afflicting the comfortable. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. — Halford Luccock Copy Share Image
“...the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“If your comfort zone is misery, it's time to get uncomfortable.” — Charles F. Glassman Copy Share Image
“I have pursued the comfort of things, when all along Comfort is a Person.” — Erin M. Straza Copy Share Image
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer. — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
