Quotes about affliction

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

— Christian Nevell Bovee

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

— Sir Richard Burton

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

— Benjamin Franklin

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

— Felicia D. Hemans

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction

— Demetrius Phalerens

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

— John Tillotson

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

— H.G. Wells