Affliction Quotes - Page 7

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Hardening of the hearteries is the most serious affliction besetting marriage, and warm, good-humored, approving words are the only effective preventive.

Ignorance is the world's most curable affliction.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.

Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.

"My father," she admitted, "was of Italian extraction. Unfortunately, not an affliction that can be cured." She paused. "Though he did die."

Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.

I have sought you out to cure me.' 'To cure you of what?' 'Of this cursed affliction.' 'I cannot cure stupidity.' Scapegrace frowned.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

Having a crush is a bit like being infected with the most annoying, troubling and yet delicious disease you could get. It is almost more of an affliction.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the average life of mankind by only a few hours, or even a few days, then the scientist, too could aspire.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.