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Quotes About Distress

Would you say the shapeshifter was in distress?" "Hell yeah, he was in distress. His tail was on fire." "He ran like his tail was on fire?" "No, his tail was on fire. Like a big, furry candle on his ass.
~ Ilona Andrews
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
~ Daniel Goleman
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
~ Gore Vidal
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
~ Blaise Pascal
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
~ Daniel Defoe
Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability
~ Confucius
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.
~ Philip Mallory Conley
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.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Something's nibbling my spleen!
~ Steven Erikson
You are young,' said Rise. 'There is much for you to bear, but the gift of youth means you scarcely feel its weight. It distresses me to think that you are growing old before your time.
~ Steven Erikson
Udinaas could not decide which of the two was the more pathetic. Seeing them, as he did now, they both broke his heart, and there seemed no way to distinguish between the two. As if grief had flavours .
~ Steven Erikson
Yet his feeling of wrongness now ached in his skull.
~ Steven Erikson
Put simply, pandemics of infectious disease are not just events in which some infectious "bug" spreads throughout the world. Pandemics are events in which the population's psychological reactions to infection play an essential role in both the spreading and containment of the disease, and influence the extent to which widespread emotional distress and social disorder occur.
~ Steven Taylor
During times of pandemic, people need to be able to tolerate or accept a certain degree of uncertainty. People who are unable or unwilling to accept uncertainty are likely to experience considerable distress.
~ Steven Taylor
The appearance of fine-tuning in a scientific theory is like a cry of distress from nature, complaining that something needs to be better explained.
~ Steven Weinberg
There was something too realistic in this performance, a promise of horror. I didn't want to watch it any more; I was sure it was going to distress me. It was like some soulscape terror being brought into reality, with no escape of return to normal awareness
~ Storm Constantine
The messiness of the past quarter hour distressed him. He disliked overt violence.
~ Storm Constantine
For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration "of the other's distress alone".
~ Sue Halpern
After what I seen today, I'll never sleep again.
~ Sue Townsend
Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.
~ L.A. Serröt, Gris
The cows were all running around their pen in manic terror.
~ Naomi Novik
I have a condition that prompts me to want to know the truth at all times. You can't imagine the amount of distress this ailment brings to those of us who could otherwise live so content in a state of blissful ignorance.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon