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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you. -- Mel Gibson
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. -- Robert South
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. -- Fay Weldon
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem. -- Fred Saberhagen
Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. -- Fred Upton
We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse. -- Charles Inglis
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country. -- Tom Paulin
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. -- Bertrand Russell
We may believe in the state's responsibility to alleviate the crushing poverty that afflicts 40 percent of Latin America's population, but most of us also affirm that there is no better cure for that poverty than a stronger, more globally integrated economy. -- Oscar Arias
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. -- Camille Paglia
Depression is a democratic sickness: it afflicts everyone. -- Indro Montanelli
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us. -- Blaise Pascal
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener. -- Michael Pollan
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. -- H. L. Mencken
It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence. -- Agnes Repplier
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. -- Lauren Willig
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them. -- Thomas Watson
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously. -- Pope Francis
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people. -- H. L. Mencken
God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care. -- Benedict Joseph Labre
The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential. -- Louis O. Kelso
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society. -- Theodore Kaczynski
Resist the temptation to think what afflicts you is peculiar to you. Have faith that what is in your consciousness can be communicated to the consciousness of all. And is, in many cases, already there. -- Alice Walker
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere. -- Stephen Vizinczey

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