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Quotes About Distress

Rose,sensing her mother's distress...She did not face me, but I could feel the vibration of tears, a kind of pain hive,rustling inside her.
~ Aimee Bender
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.
~ Alain de Botton
La amenaza psicológica es mucho más peligrosa que la física porque te arrastra al lodo de la angustia, que nada tiene que ver con lo que está sucediendo en el momento.
~ Alan Cohen
Outside an ambulance begins to scream as if overwhelmed by the suffering it must forever carry in its belly.
~ Alan Moore
We are grateful for the saints, he says, who lift up the heart in the days of our distress. Would we do less? For do we less, there are no saints to lift up any heart. If Christ be Christ he says, true Lord of Heaven, true Lord of Men, what is there that we would not do no matter what our suffering may be?
~ Alan Paton
If you hear any screaming," he said "that'll be me.
~ Derek Landy
It hurts," she said.
~ Derek Landy
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
~ Diana (Princess of Wales)
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
~ Diane Abbott
The joy of God has gone through the poverty of the manger and the distress of the cross; therefore it is invincible and irrefutable.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I believe that God will give us all the strength we need to help us to resist in all times of distress. But He never gives it in advance, lest we should rely on ourselves and not on Him alone.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.
~ John Mayer
Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.
~ Epictetus
Ama sebebi o deÄŸil. Sebebi, asl?nda hiçbir ÅŸeyin öneminin olmamas?. Ne okul, ne ponpon k?z tak?m?, ne arkadaÅŸlar, erkek arkadaÅŸlar, partiler, yarat?c? yazarl?k bölümleri, ne de.." Kollar?n? tüm dünyay? iÅŸaret edercesine iki yana açt?. "Hepsi, ölünceye kadar oyalanmam?z için uydurulmuÅŸ türlü meÅŸgaleler.
~ Jennifer Niven
I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun,
~ Jenny Han
Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.
~ Jessica Alba
Yet despite all these things we know to be true- despite the preponderance of evidence showing the mental and emotional distress people demonstrate in violent and harassing environments- we still have no name for what happens to women living in a culture that hates them.
~ Jessica Valenti
Shorter believes that psychosomatic illnesses (such as leg paralysis at the turn of the twentieth century or multiple personality disorder at the turn of the twenty-first) are examples of the unconscious mind attempting to speak in a language of emotional distress that will be understood in its time.
~ Ethan Watters
Three sheets in the wind', Giles, the sign of nautical distress in the absence of naval signals.
~ Andrew Wareham
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
~ Andrew Young
Brooding achieves nothing, save distress, which clearly does you no good.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
prophet in Shiloh." The reminder that other men also shared the burden of leadership alleviated some of my distress. For years I had imagined myself alone in my task, but if Adonai was also using another man with long plaited hair, maybe the responsibility wasn't as heavy as I feared.
~ Angela Elwell Hunt
now be quiet, I'm going to be sick.
~ Angie Sage
Gringe found out and tipped off the Custodian Guards. He no more wanted his daughter to marry a Heap than you wanted Simon to marry a Gringe. The Guards stormed the chapel, sent the distraught lass home and took Simon away.
~ Angie Sage