Top 134 Ordeal Quotes & Sayings

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.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.

Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

The ordeal is part of the commitment" Esquire Interview 10/10

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

The difference between an adventure and an ordeal is attitude.

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.

Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)

I'm grateful this ordeal is over, and I'm so looking forward to getting back to the job I love.

Simple words of encouragement subsequently saved many of the Indianapolis' sailors during their ordeal in the summer of 1945, and those men took the lesson to heart.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.

Attitude is the difference between ordeal and adventure

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

The ordeal of virtue is to resist all temptation to evil.

Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.

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

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

My sister and I were driving at night and were followed by guys on a bike. It was a terrifying experience. The ordeal made us start a chauffeur service.

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

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.

We are pretty firm believers in the fact that you make your own fate, with or without the Facebook ordeal.

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

Now I know why women get their ears pierced. Once they've survived this ordeal of mutilation, they can face the discomforts of childbirth with equanimity.

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Prisoners around the world have said that reading 'The Count of Monte Cristo' helped them get through their ordeal. That's something to aspire to.

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?

I think I was 16 when I had the thought of maybe being a writer. And this is complicated, something I only now understand, because when I was young, having dyslexia and not knowing it made reading such an ordeal.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

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

I wouldn't call going into the Premier League an ordeal. I would say the Championship is more of an ordeal than the Premier League.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

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.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

Fear that comes from personal experience is far more real than fear based on someone else's ordeal.

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.

At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end.

We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

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

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.

Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through ordeal.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.