Quotes About Distress

The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.

The pain of WATCHING them! What about their pain?

Qué he hecho?, no dejaba de musitar. [...] Le hubiera gustado consolarlo, pero nunca había visto a un hombre tan deshecho.

He was in a terrible state - that of consciousness.

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most Ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely accidental. Each individual misfortune, to be sure, seems an exceptional occurrence; but misfortune in general is the rule.

No wonder I had found that woman so offensive. Sometimes things feel that bad. Sometimes you just feel like shit.

From Canada to Pensacola, families shuddered at the Act

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

His face had been twisted into an expression of every agony he had imagined for his friend.

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

it was more like bleeding than crying.

There is pain in every almost.

The world is insane. You only have to watch the news to know it.

that the hungover eye had a weird ability to find the ugliest things in any given landscape.

Sung sirens, sliding through the streets, streaking blue light from distress to distress, the slow wail weaving urgency through the darkest of the dark hours, a lament lifted high, held above the rooftops and fading away, lifted high, flashing past, fading away.

BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others present who can render assistance

That's when the screaming started.

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).

The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him that its really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

If it upsets you better not recall it.

una referencia explícita. Comparte con el anterior la impresión interior de temor, de indefensión, de zozobra. Pero mientras en el miedo esto se produce por algo, en la angustia (o ansiedad) se produce por nada, se difuminan las

she no longer wished to see him, citing differences of personality and taste as the reason. He had been distraught, threatening to throw himself beneath a tube train if she did not agree to see him again – always the last refuge of the morally bankrupt, she thought

But at heart what we are talking about is not pathology but an intense conflictual knowing, a knowing that we are worthy smacking up against a knowing that we are just passing through: a knowing, that is, that we matter and that we do not matter. This is a true and not a pathological understanding. Every smart person possesses this understanding and can't help but feel distressed by this understanding.