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.

- Damon Albarn

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

- Jacques Derrida

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

- Kamisese Mara

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

- Maria Mitchell

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

- Maurice Saatchi

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

- Zane Grey