Quotes About Distress

Distressing to be hated because of lies, isn't it. (Mirella) Especially when there are so many legitimate reasons to be hated. (Schramm)

KIDS IN DISTRESSED FAMILIES ARE GREAT repositories of silence and carry in their bodies whole arctic wastelands of words not to be uttered, stories not to be told.

Yet, distantly, or sometimes not so distantly, I can hear that child's voice—I can feel its hope, or its distress.

After the Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40 P.M., the ship's radio operator sent out an SOS. An SOS is the international distress signal in Morse code. Unfortunately, the only ship near the Titanic had turned off its radio for the night. All the other ships who received the message were too far away to help. When the Titanic sank around 2:20 A.M., she was all alone.

ship. 3) The signal SOS was chosen as an international distress call because of the simplicity of the three letters in Morse code: three dots, three dashes, and three dots. 4)

They think of it as lubricating, and that's it!" She went back to her hotel room and called her boyfriend in tears.

A considerable period elapsed before I discovered one of the causes of the uneasiness of this amiable family: it was poverty, and they suffered that evil in a very distressing degree.

shambles in her sternum.

her feet got sweeped. "OW!" she hollered. "OW! OUCH! OW!

Apparently we always think we want choice, but when we actually get it, we may not like it. Meanwhile, the need to chose in ever more aspects of life causes us more distress than we realize.

I believe there are steps we can take to mitigate—even eliminate—many of these sources of distress, but they aren't easy. They require practice, discipline, and perhaps a new way of thinking. On the other hand, each of these steps will bring its own rewards.

Hedonistic distress come when experience fails to live up to expectations.

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

You did not cause his despair. Had you treated him with distrust, you would have achieved nothing but the confirmation of his distress. Distrust—vindicates itself.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

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

Distress, whether psychic, physical, or intellectual, need not at all produce nihilism (that is, the radical rejection of value, meaning and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations. Nietzsche wrote those words.

Distress, whether psychic, physical, or intellectual, need not at all produce nihilism (that is, the radical rejection of value, meaning and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations.

The sexual abuse of children is distressingly common.156 However, it's not as common as poorly trained psychotherapists think, and it also does not always produce terribly damaged adults.157 People vary in their resilience. An event that will wipe one person out can be shrugged off by another. But therapists with a little second-hand knowledge of Freud often axiomatically assume that a distressed adult in their practice must have been subject to childhood sexual abuse.

Leafpool, come quickly!" she gasped. "Firestar's ill!

panic-stricken

the news that had everyone from Toronto to Tokyo crapping in their cornflakes

Though the bored person hungers for things to happen to him, the disheartening fact is that when they do he empties them of the very meaning he unconsciously yearns for by using them as distractions. In popular culture even the second com- ing would become just another 'barren' thrill to be watched on television till Milton Berle comes on.

For Himme, the cumulative effect of the cumulative listening to the cumulative song was cumulatively distressing.