Quote by Publius Syrus

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

“If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.”

— Jean de La Bruyère

“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us. It raises…

— Russ Ramsey

“Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.”

— Jeri Smith-Ready

“Be patient in affliction.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The afflicted are basically the majority or only set of people who are insulted by injustice in society today.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

— Simone Weil

“You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you…

— Osho

“I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.”

— Mark Twain

“Nothing hinders a cure so much as frequent changes of treatment.”

— Seneca

“That the other suffers has to be learned; and it can never be learned fully.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

— Joyce Carol Oates