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Quotes About Distress

The kind of noise that made your skin crawl and made you press your hands to your ears and pray it went away.
~ James Dashner
You're tearing me apart!
~ James Dean
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
~ James Morrow
I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
~ James Patterson
These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent to call to your mind that which you have received of His goodness, that you may trust Him in your distress.
~ James Thomas
Ok, he said, I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.
~ Douglas Adams
News of the murder had her all in a tizzy.
~ Douglas Preston
Everything's the matter.
~ Agatha Christie
His hands were shaking and his face was twitching. He looked a wreck of a man.
~ Agatha Christie
She fumbled with her bag and pulled out a handkerchief. Her voice trembled.
~ Agatha Christie
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
~ Al Gore
needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.
~ Alan Russell
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
~ Ma Jian
The greatest evil is physical pain.
~ Saint Augustine
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
~ John Adams
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
~ Princess Diana
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.
~ Wendell Willkie
But even as she struck the bonds seemed to tighten, with each fresh blow to bind more securely. Mary now clung with every fibre of her sorely distressed and outraged being; with every memory that Stephen stirred; with every passion that Stephen had fostered; with every instinct of loyalty that Stephen had aroused to do battle with Martin.
~ Radclyffe Hall
happening in my highly distressed state of mind. A psychiatrist later explained that in order for someone to perform sexually, their sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems have to be operating at the same time, which isn't possible when your brain is on operational overdrive.
~ Ralph Pezzullo
The international code for signalling with a whistle is: One blast – Where are you? Two blasts – Come to me Three blasts – I need help Response – One blast
~ Ray Mears
Suddenly you began to sob. It was an unnerving sound, like air escaping from a faucet when the water stops.
~ K?b? Abe
Un b?rbat tinde s? se piard? în m?runÅ£iÅŸuri mai mult decat o femeie.
~ K?b? Abe
inhabitants of countries that were colonized by the Europeans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries knew how profoundly distressing it was to watch a cherished way of life disappearing and beloved traditions decried by powerful, disdainful foreigners.
~ Karen Armstrong
Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.
~ Moses ibn Ezra