Definition of Afflicted

Afflicted Quotations

You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
Princess Diana

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.
Charles Spurgeon

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
Elizabeth I

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim Valvano

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
Sextus Propertius

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
John Galsworthy

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
Don DeLillo