Quotes About Distress

The officer said No and his mother was frantic.

It's a natural thing for a human to feel sympathy for another animal who's in distress, but dogs don't need our sympathy. They need our leadership.

shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

What we found is that when people [are] excluded, you see activity in…the neural regions [of the brain] that are also involved in the distressing component of pain, or what sometimes people call the 'suffering component' of pain.

Language used truly, not mere talk, neither propaganda, nor chatter, has real power. Its words are allowed to be themselves, to bless or curse, wound or heal. They have the power of a 'word made flesh,' of ordinary speech that suddenly takes hold, causing listeners to pay close attention, and even to release bodily sighs--whether of recognition, delight, grief, or distress.

Man is never helped in his suffering by what he thinks for himself, but only by revelations of a wisdom greater than his own. It is this which lifts him out of his distress.

turning in my guts like a torsion.

Distress, however much you tried to compartmentalize it, put you in an illogical frame of mind.

You can't, in other words, build a billion dollar empire like Facebook if you're wasting hours every day using a service like Facebook.

Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.

We justify many of the technologies that tyrannize our time and attention with some tangential connection to something we care about.

There was no sense in adding to her distress by not taking care of the things she valued.

The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.

Historically, it is chiefly in times of physical, political, economic and spiritual distress that men's eyes turn with anxious hope to the future, and when anticipations, utopias and apocalyptic visions multiply.

I have more than once tried to analyse this apparently deliberate form of self-torture that seems common to so many people in face of the extinction of a valued life, human or animal, and it springs, I think, from a negation of death, as if by summoning and arranging these subjective images one were in some way cheating the objective fact. It is, I believe, an entirely instinctive process, and the distress it brings with it is an incidental, a by-product, rather than a masochistic end.

Tell the brat whatever you think will work. Just keep her within bounds, and then with luck we can all avoid unnecessary harshness. Also, hurry up and get over that pneumonia. We don't have time for sickbed drama. The letters from the Cardinal and from Ao Guang about the missing worlds are disturbing—we're still understaffed, and there's too much to do.

the feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress.

Irène suddenly taken today destination Pithiviers13 (Loiret)—hope you can intercede urgently—trying to telephone no success. Michel Epstein.

You can't imagine what it's like when every moment you're conscious you're in the most frightful pain.

Ludens was continually aware of his father's distress.

You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind.

Can barely look in the mirror. I've been way too uncomfortable to try and shave and I've grown a thin, scraggy ginger beard which looks redder and thicker than it is, cause of the spots on my face. The yellowheads are repulsive enough, but it's two big boil-like fuckers on my cheek and forehead that cause the distress. They throb under the surface of my skin like a Peter Hook bassline, hurting my face every time I try to move it.

Anxiety is that range of distress which attends willing what cannot be willed.