Ordeals Quotes - Page 2

• Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophical, Love Is, Rivals

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.105, Arcade Publishing

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• The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

  Victor Hugo

  Loss, Beloved, Supreme

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.784, Wordsworth Editions

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• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

  Zane Grey

  Difficulty

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• Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

  Steve Buyer

  Depression, Men, Crucible

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• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

  Kieran Culkin

  Divorce, Hollywood, Blame

  "The Young And `The Mighty' / Youthful stars Culkin and Henson are veterans of showbiz". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 11, 1998.

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• And if you look at pictures of Eleanor between 1918 and 1921, she becomes anorexic. She really loses a tremendous amount of weight. That's when her teeth really go bad. It's a terrible, terrible time for her. And she has five children, ranging in age from three to 10. It's an emotionally terrible ordeal.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Children, Age, Teeth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I didn't run from the situation. I didn't hide the ordeal from the reporters like the sissy baseball players. I fought it head-on... We dealt with it. It's over. And now we're moving on.

  James Toney

  Baseball, Running, Motivation

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• Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Lonely, Speaking Up, America

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• Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Needs, Kind

  "The City of God".

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• The ordeal is part of the commitment"
  
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  Philip Roth

  Commitment, Interviews

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• If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, Firsts, Conflict

  Norman Cousins (1961). “In place of folly”

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• Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Blow, Jail

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• It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Writing, Night, Years

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel that will, in good time, and by God's decree, work out her own independence.

  Belle Boyd

  War, Believe, Fire

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• Before I had a kid, I was off in some kind of cosmic state all of the time, and thinking about the world beyond, thinking about intellectual stuff. And then, after I had a kid, just the whole process of giving birth is just so earthy and grounding and insane and it's all just an intense physical ordeal.

  Larkin Grimm

  Kids, Thinking, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, War, Iraq

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring in from fellows who want me or someone else to hand them a job on a silver platter with a guarantee that they will receive the wonderful promotion their talents warrant.... But a tragic number of young men and even older men have a notion that it is not up to them to prosecute the bettering process. They look to someone else to perform the trick for them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Jobs, Men

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• I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied,
  and helped others to defy, radical Islam's war against women.
  Her memoir contains important and properly complex reflections
  about the ravages of theocracy, about thoughtfulness, and about the
  ordeals of freedom-as well as a stirring account of the pleasures and
  deepening of consciousness that result from an encounter with great
  literature and with an inspired teacher.

  Susan Sontag

  Teacher, War, Reflection

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• New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?

  B. C. Forbes

  Dream, New Year, Deserve More

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• Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, Mind, Sorrow

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.151

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• some journalists have described the South Pole as 'hell on earth.' Others refer to my time here as 'an ordeal.' They would be surprised to know how beautiful Antarctica has seemed to me, with its waves of ice in a hundred shades of blue and white, its black winter sky, its ecstatic wheel of stars. They would never understand how the lights of the Dome welcomed me from a distance, or how often I danced and sang and laughed here with my friends. And how I was not afraid.

  Jerri Nielsen

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

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• Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips people away from their roots, their important relationships, and a part of themselves. There is really nothing like it - except perhaps war.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Rip, War, Divorce

  Suzanne Gordon (1976). “Lonely in America”

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• [The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Pregnancy, Passion, Names

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• For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.

  Virginia Graham

  Three, Driving, Driven

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• Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Husband, Understanding, Dollars

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