Washington Irving

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

American Writer

Saint Patrick

I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.

Scottish Saint

William E. Simon

I sometimes think that the only person fit to inherit wealth is the person who doesn't need an inheritance - the person who would create his own fortune no matter what his start in life - and have come to view inherited wealth as an affliction.

American Public Servant

Miguel de Unamuno

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Spanish Educator

Saint Ignatius

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Spanish Saint

Simone Weil

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

French Philosopher

Dash Mihok

With Tourette's, there's this element of vulnerability and compassion and empathy that you innately possess because of the affliction.

American Actor

Bodhidharma

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

Indian Leader

H. G. Wells

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

English Author

William Arthur Ward

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

Used to describe situations with serious emotional impact, often associated with pity or sadness.

Emotional Weight

Can refer to emotional pain, not just physical suffering or diseases.

Not Always Physical

Implies a condition that persists over time, rather than a brief episode.

Long-lasting Effect

Typically associated with health and medical conditions that cause suffering.

Medical Context

Often implies a long-term health condition rather than a temporary illness.

Chronic Implication

Can refer to societal issues that cause widespread difficulty or distress.

Social Challenges

May denote personal challenges that aren't visibly apparent to others.

Personal Struggles

In religious texts, seen as a means to grow spiritually or morally.

Spiritual Growth

Believed to have a purpose or deeper meaning given by a higher power.

Divine Purpose

 Four brothers wandered this celestial realm. They had no family other than each other— they didn’t even know who their parents were. One of the brothers, Deminan, looked different from the others. His skin was covered in painful scabs, and he wondered why he alone had been marked with this affliction.

The Taino myth of the...

 and the only treatment was divine intervention. Today, we know the symptoms of miqtu by another name, and modern medicine has developed numerous treatments for those experiencing seizures. But these ancient afflictions still hold a surprising number of secrets.

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 At first, nostalgia was considered a particularly Swiss affliction. Some doctors proposed that the constant sound of cowbells in the Alps caused trauma to the ear drums and brain. Commanders even forbade their soldiers from singing traditional Swiss songs

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 I spent a lot of time alone in my room, checking my email, desperate to hear from the guy I loved. I decided that if my friends could not understand my grievous affliction, then I did not need their friendship. So I stopped hanging out with most of them.

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 window on his state of mind they're the closest that we can get to an insight into the world of Paris and his family over the years Katherine spots a change in tone Paris seems troubled as we approach the time of the girls afflictions a new theme

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 we cannot agree on a single identity. It's easy to see your multipotentiality as a limitation or an affliction that you need to overcome. But what I've learned through speaking with people and writing about these ideas on my website,

Why some of us don't...

 that it's become an affliction the disease of our era so I got myself to a couple of debtors Anonymous meetings and I read everything I could that they offered in all of it rocked my world

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 If you don't feel better about yourself, maybe you should. Cliffside Park, New Jersey is my hometown. I have always loved the fact that my hood and my affliction share the same initials.

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 of the women are cut that way before they reach maturity. This is a horrible affliction on all women that live in those countries. Another very serious thing is honor killings,

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 In ancient Greece, headaches were considered powerful afflictions. Victims prayed for relief from Asclepius, the god of medicine. And if pain continued,