Afflicting Quotes

#1. Homework is a term that means grown up imposed yet self-afflicting torture.

James Patterson

#2. Abandoned homes are everyone's problem, afflicting communities all over the state.

Eric Schneiderman

#3. This isn't hope, I thought. It's madness. It's hunger, need, desperation.

Leigh Bardugo

#4. To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted ...

Ann Radcliffe

#5. Except during outbreaks of vicious bigotry, it is difficult to persuade white America that the alienation of Black America is actual and ongoing, afflicting each generation through policy, custom, quack science, and if nothing else, the Look.

Theresa Perry

#6. Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. Lies are terrible things. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues. All the same, were we to speak only the truth all year round, then the truth might lose its value.

Haruki Murakami

#8. I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Halford Luccock

#9. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. A man whose heart is stayed upon God is just the same in the hour of his most afflicting trials and most discouraging surroundings as when he was in prosperity, when the light and favor of God seemed to be upon him.

Ellen G. White

#11. It seems with every new day, we have a new veto threat from the president.

Mitch McConnell

#12. Callous, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. The problems afflicting a nation are always in equal measure spiritual crises.

Ron Suskind

#14. Now comes the difficult part: you must provoke the animal that is afflicting you. Tiger, rhinoceros, ostrich, wild boar, brown bear- no matter the beast, you must get its goat.

Yann Martel

#15. I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

Martha Plimpton

#16. I have a kind of innate sense of structure, which also makes me a good mimic.

Michael Moorcock

#17. Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

David Lodge

#18. You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.

Princess Diana

#19. Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

Christopher Love

#20. When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

Tahir Shah

#21. Corruption and leaders who feel they are not accountable to the people who 'elected' them to their positions are major issues afflicting the nation

Anonymous

#22. I spend half my time comforting the afflicated, and the other half afflicting the comfortable.

Wess Stafford

#23. I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written, about when she used to work in a strip club. After the first week, I was told not to come back.

Daisy Ridley

#24. One could say that the greatest sins afflicting modern society are the proliferation of lies and silence. We lie through our teeth, then swallow our tongues."
-from "Heart the Wind Sing

Haruki Murakami

#25. It's a good and rare thing to realize when we're happy.

Faith Sullivan

#26. Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.

Thabo Mbeki