Afflict Quotes
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
— Finley Peter Dunne
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser
It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.
— David Foster Wallace
It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
— Eric Hoffer
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
— Sophie Swetchine
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best!
— Thomas Gray
The atheist ... destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
— Baron D'Holbach
I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.
— Sophie Swetchine
I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
— Lucille Clifton
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
— Henry Adams
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
— Harold S. Geneen
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
— Martin Luther
The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.
— Michael Drayton
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
— Cardinal Richelieu
Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.
— Teresa Of Avila
Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.
— Nachman Of Breslov
There are in life real evils enough and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones.
— Benjamin Franklin
It's making life important, making a single life important, rather than having a prescription for the global ills which afflict us.
— Bharati Mukherjee
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
— Blaise Pascal
The gods being always close to men perceive those who afflict others with unjust devices and do not fear the wrath of heaven.
— Hesiod
As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
— Paramahansa Yogananda