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Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. -- Sextus Propertius
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. -- Sextus Propertius
The pearl on my beloved's neck, Afflicted sore the oyster! -- Bhartrhari
Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.". -- Ambrose Bierce
Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out. -- Emile M. Cioran
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. -- Finley Peter Dunne
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable. -- Princess Diana
In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted. -- Nicholas Culpeper
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. -- Jeremy Taylor
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. -- Aeschylus
It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you. -- Harvey Pekar
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. -- Janet Street-Porter
There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. -- Walter Salles
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history. -- Frank B. Kellogg
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
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. -- Charles Sumner
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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
More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases. -- Ron Kind
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. -- John Galsworthy
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. -- Don DeLillo
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
Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians. -- Conrad Black
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
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
I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background. -- Jim Valvano
When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves. -- Anne Lamott
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
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
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
Anxiety has afflicted me all my life. -- Scott Stossel
To love the world is to be afflicted. -- Yunus Emre
Penetrative insight joined with calm abiding utterly eradicates afflicted states. -- Shantideva
In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted. -- Nicholas Culpeper
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing -- Doris Lessing
All pioneers are considered to be afflicted with moonstruck madness. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
I believe in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. -- Halford Luccock
It is good for me that I have been afflicted. -- Mary Rowlandson
Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism. -- Sextus Empiricus
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. -- Finley Peter Dunne
There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. -- Anne Bronte
It is an honor to appear on the side of the afflicted -- Elizabeth Fry
It is an easy thing to talk of patience to the afflicted. -- William Blake
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth -- Jeremy Taylor
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. -- John Milton
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. -- Charles Dickens
A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members. -- Silvia Tennenbaum
Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes! -- Caitlin Moran
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted. -- Charles Spurgeon
There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts. -- Rumi
He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it. -- Seneca the Younger
Hillary Clinton has emphasized that she is afflicted with or possessed of the responsibility gene. -- Mark Shields
The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. -- Clarence Darrow
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. -- Desmond Tutu
He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless ... -- Rumi
Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate. -- Ovid
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted. -- Elizabeth I
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit. -- Frank McCourt
From that day to this that religion has been the greatest curse that ever afflicted the earth. -- Charles Chilton Moore
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. -- Thomas Brooks
If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope. -- George Steiner
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. -- Ambrose Bierce
Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race. -- Bertrand Russell
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world. -- Gautama Buddha
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil. -- Martin Luther
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. -- Samuel Johnson
Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls -- William Styron
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. -- Maxim Gorky
Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery. -- Pope Francis
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. -- Barbara Tuchman
My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist. -- John Rocker
It takes much more energy to ignore things than it takes to deal with them and not be afflicted by them anymore. -- Jack Schwarz
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. -- Victor Hugo
I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother. -- Edward VII
They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever -- Lucinda Franks
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. -- Russell Baker
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience. -- Nancy Mairs
Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished? -- Jean Baptiste Massillon
I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen. -- Louise Rennison
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares. -- John Ray
Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that. -- Epictetus
I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits. -- Darren Shan
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more. -- Joseph Hall
O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit. -- Jonathan Stroud
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
To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality. -- Banesh Hoffmann
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
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss. -- Joan Didion
The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers. -- Rudyard Kipling
Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. -- Virginia Woolf
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity. -- Alice Walker
Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us. -- Dean Koontz
There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted. -- Teresa of Avila
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. -- Thomas Paine
The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love. -- Henri Nouwen
Perhaps it had nothing to do with sin and everything to do with sociopathy, that most incurable of human disorders because all so afflicted consider themselves blessed rather than cursed. -- Joseph Wambaugh
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind. -- John Quincy Adams
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer. -- Kate Millett
Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus. -- J. C. Ryle
... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod. -- Solon
The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted. -- Osbert Sitwell
It takes strong, sound leadership, that correspondingly rare commodity, which is afflicted with neither an excess of pity nor callousness, to stand against the insipid tide of superficiality that is sweeping the world. -- Tim Macartney-Snape
If you feel that Heavenly Father is not listening to your petitions, ask yourself if you are listening to the cries of the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the afflicted all around you. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now -- Eckhart Tolle
We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well. -- Richard Hofstadter
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The more you are afflicted, the more you ought to rejoice, because in the fire of tribulation the soul will become pure gold, worthy to be placed and to shine in the heavenly palace. -- Pio of Pietrelcina

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