Affliction Quote by Thomas Southerne Download Open image “Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.” — Thomas Southerne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affliction Character Dies Distress Opportunity Teach Virtue
Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow. No one is exempt. [...]Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share
“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We all must… — Brent Green Copy Share Image
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect,… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.” — Melvin Jules Bukiet Copy Share Image
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It's not the world that distresses you but how you relate to it. — Swami Parthasarathy Copy Share Image
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks… — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
![“May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom… How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning…” quote by Rainer Maria Rilke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7c7/rainer-maria-rilke-193_abode_may-i-strike-my-heart-s-keys-clearly-and_52479.jpg)
