Top 22 Mortifications Quotes
#1. Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if He really believe that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#2. We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to a bar. We have been banded together under pack codes and tribal laws.
Rose Macaulay
#3. It is a harder and a nobler task to preserve detachment in a crowd than in a cell; the little daily sacrifices of family life are often a greater trial than self-imposed mortifications.
William Ralph Inge
#4. Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
John Vianney
#5. It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
Roger L'Estrange
#6. It is true I little respect women or girls who are loquacious either in boasting the triumphs, or bemoaning the mortifications, of feelings.
Charlotte Bronte
#7. Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#8. Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.
Oliver Goldsmith
#9. Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
John Of The Cross
#10. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.
Oliver Goldsmith
#11. For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.
Carlos Castaneda
#12. I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.
Jacques De Lacretelle
#13. You don't believe in Nature anymore. It's too isolated from you. You've abstracted it. It's so messy and damaged and sad. Your eyes glaze as you travel life's highway past all the crushed animals and the Big Gulp cups.
Joy Williams
#15. I'd die for him! And he would. Say the word, there's Tate Walker, lying down in traffic and throwing his worthless life away so someone as good as Brian could cross the street.
Amy Lane
#16. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Edgar Allan Poe
#17. A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy
#18. Home was the place where, when you have to go there, they have to chain you up.
Stephen King
#19. I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.
Enrique Pena Nieto
#20. Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.
Thiruvalluvar
