Afflicted Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent. — Mason Cooley

But I want to be your last. — Sylvain Reynard

These tiny groups that make us feel loved and save and part of something even on our loneliest nights when we stumble home to our computers - partnerless, tired, awake. We won't have those next year. We won't live on the same block as all our friends. We won't have a bunch of group texts.
This scares me. More than finding the right job or city or spouse, I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. This feeling I feel right now. — Marina Keegan

Truth strikes us from behind and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight. — Henry David Thoreau

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats ... or skinny. — Steve Martin

If there's a place for tolerance in racial healing, perhaps it has to do with tolerating my own feelings of discomfort that arise when a person, of any color, expresses emotion not welcome in the culture of niceness. It also has to do with tolerating my own feelings of shame, humiliation, regret, anger, and fear so I can engage, not run. For me, tolerance is not about others, it's about accepting my own uncomfortable emotions as I adjust to a changing view of myself as imperfect and vulnerable. As human. — Debby Irving

In the Arctic, things are already getting freaky. Temperatures have warmed three times faster than the global average. — Jeff Goodell

A big, spectacular thing can frequently be accomplished quickly. Quality usually takes longer. Fanfare and fireworks are not part of quality; therefore, only those who know true values are attracted to it. But when fanfare and fireworks are over, quality will remain. — Alfred Armand Montapert

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. — Sam Neill

There are only two rules for being successful: one, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it. — Mario Cuomo

A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken. — Jodi Picoult

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world. — John Ruskin

I saw through the lies, deception and the greed of religion at a very young age. I had experiences that I couldn't — Rick Kueber

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before - consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. — George Eliot

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person. — Chris Wooding