Ordeal Quotes

“METAPHYSICAL LECTURE 1
It has been said that after undergoing certain ordeals — whether ecstatic or abysmal — we should be obliged to change our names, as we are no longer who we once were. Instead the opposite rule is applied: our names linger long after anything resembling what we were, or thought we were, has disappeared entirely. Not that there was ever much to begin with — only a few questionable memories and impulses drifting about like snowflakes in a gray and endless winter. But each soon floats down and settles into a cold and nameless void.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

“I had the misfortune of meeting Chuck Traynor. He started out as a nice person and then did a complete 180 and beat me up from that day forward, physically, mentally, and psychologically. The psychological damage will never go away”
― Linda Lovelace

“A victim has the potential to transform into a survivor, but if that is forgotten, a true victim is what they become. A survivor must endure strife and persevere against those thoughts that would convince them otherwise. Holding fast to ones will will allow them to know their strength has not evaporated; They will never be without hope.”
― J.D. Stroube, Caged in Spirit

“Preparation:
allows you to prevent . . .
the intensity of the ordeal.”
― John-Talmage Mathis, For the (soon) unemployed: You Against Them

“I don’t know what more to say... I did not follow up in the days to come. I did not, I did, I should, I could... Just like that, I let that entire ordeal go.”
― Phindiwe Nkosi, Behind the Hospital

“Done right, life is an ordeal.”
― Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey

“In this connection I must mention too a not altogether rational idea which I had nourished more or less vaguely for a long time: the notion that before I could achieve greatness as a writer I would have to pass through some ordeal. For this ordeal I had waited in vain. Even total war (I was never in uniform) failed to ruffle my life. I seemed doomed to quietness.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“I had been confronted (at last) with a sizeable ordeal labelled with my name. This was not something to be wasted.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“ನಿಮ್ಮ ನಾಲಿಗೆಯಿಂದ ನೀವು ನನ್ನ ಬೆವರುವಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಮುಟ್ಟಿದ್ದೀರಿ
ಅಬೋಂಟಿಕಾ, ಮತ್ತು ಹೇಳಿದ್ದು, ‘ಆಹ್ ಉಪ್ಪು ಸೌಂದರ್ಯ
ಹೃದಯದ ಹೃದಯ… ಪುರುಷತ್ವದ ಪರಿಮಳ… ’
ಆ ದಿನ, ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಕಸ್ಟಡಿಯಿಂದ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯದವರೆಗೆ
ಹಗ್ಗವನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ಸೊಂಟಕ್ಕೆ ಕಟ್ಟಿ ಕೈಕವಚ
ನಾನು ಕೊಲೆಗಾರರ ಹುಡ್ಲಮ್ಗಳೊಂದಿಗೆ ನಡೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ;
ರಸ್ತೆಯ ಎರಡೂ ಬದಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸರ್ಕಸ್ ಪ್ರೀತಿಯ ಗುಂಪು.

ದ್ರೋಹಿಗಳು, ಯಾರು ಸ್ವಯಂಪ್ರೇರಿತರಾಗಿದ್ದಾರೆ
ನನ್ನ ವಿರುದ್ಧ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ಹೇಳಲು ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯ, ಯಾವಾಗ ಎಂದು ಹೇಳಿದರು
ಅವರು ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ಪೆಟ್ಟಿಗೆಯಿಂದ ಕೆಳಗಿಳಿದು, ‘ಇಲ್ಲ,
ಬೆವರು ಸಿಹಿಯಾಗಿತ್ತು ಮತ್ತು ಉಪ್ಪಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ; ಹೀಗೆ
ವಿಶ್ವಾಸಘಾತುಕತನದ ಯಾವುದೇ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಉದ್ಭವಿಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ-
ಮತ್ತು ದ್ರೋಹಿಗಳು ಎಂದು ಗುರುತಿಸಬಾರದು.”
― Malay Roychoudhury, Selected Poems

“I Don’t MAKE TWO ORDERS For ONE ORDEAL UNLIKE LAW”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar