Affliction

Famous quotes containing the word affliction:

“Feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction.”
—Bible: Hebrew (KJ)

“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.”
—Washington Irving (1783–1859)