Affliction Quote by Marisha Pessl

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

— George Orwell

“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

“Hatred the only moving force, a petulant unhappy striving - childhood the only happiness, and that unknowing; then the continual battle that cannot ever…

— Patrick O'Brian

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

— Lord Chesterfield

“of wretchedness and need,”

— A.W. Tozer

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

— Friedrich Schiller

In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

— Isabel Allende

Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful.

— Pope Francis

There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.

— Charles Dickens

Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife; And fretting…

— Edmund Spenser

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

The sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

— Anonymous