27 Afflicted Quotes for You to Enjoy

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary. Charles Spurgeon

Good Me Speak Weary Word Hundred Hundred Times Would Spirit Know Cheer How Go Been Times Afflicted Might Season

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. Princess Diana

You Comfort Comfortable Afflicted

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing. Alexandra Fuller

Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes! Caitlin Moran

World Money Poverty Clothes Our Spend Our World Afflicted

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. Camille Paglia

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The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous. Cormac McCarthy

Life Freedom You Dangerous Will First Live Harmony Everyone Way Enslave Those Some Give Could Idea Make Souls Up Afflicted Improved Really Your Notion Who Species Desire

I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy. Darin Strauss

I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of art can be measured by the harm spoken of it. If you're not feeling that, then absolutely, why bother? David Shields

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Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. David Shuster

Good News Care Entered Strive About Joined Journalism Most Comfort Comfortable Greater Because Greater Good Afflict Afflicted Us Organizations

At the same time that Donald Trump was facing a federal discrimination lawsuit for refusing to rent to minority families, Hillary Clinton risked her own safety to seek out the truth, to comfort the afflicted, and to make a home for justice where there was none. It was at the Children's Defense Fund that I met Hillary. Donna Brazile

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It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. Elizabeth I

Natural Sex Virtue Our Those Afflicted Pitiful Incident

In a sense, 'Out of Oz' is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. Gregory Maguire

Sense Out Complications Examination Individuals How Afflicted Going Oz After Them Themselves Even Keep Keep Going Lives Reinventing

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. Janet Street-Porter

Pride Stress Ailment Afflicted So-Called Many Suffer Designer

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. John Woolman

Faith Heart People Righteousness Christ Pure Feeling Faithful Society Ought Hath Had Lifted Clearness Been Up Afflicted Often Which Might Us Standard Teachings Deeply

Dillinger at one point was the second most popular man in America after President Roosevelt. And he was a national hero for a good reason. He was robbing the very institutions, the banks, which had afflicted the people for four years, and after four years nothing was getting any better. Michael Mann

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For me, what's the old expression, 'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,' that's really what religion is good at when it is done right. And the truth is, so is television. Mike Rowe

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In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted. Nicholas Culpeper

Part Afflicted Diseases Body Strengthen

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden. Phillips Brooks

Best Man Burden Energy Out Able Bear Take He Render Call Him His Truest Afflicted May Help

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted. Richard V. Allen

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. Sextus Propertius

Love Madness Blind Afflicted

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. Walter Salles

Latin Latin America Still Very Afflicted America Persons Much Leprosy Present

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