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Quotes About Distress

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
~ William Cowper
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
~ Matthew
Let's just say, he has too many pigeons on his antenna.
~ Anonymous
Worry is a form of fear.
~ Bertrand A. Russell
Non è stupro, non proprio, ma un atto indesiderato, profondamente indesiderato. Come se Melanie avesse deciso di lasciarsi andare, di morire dentro di sé per la durata del coito, come un coniglio quando le mascelle della volpe si chiudono sul suo collo. In modo che tutto ciò che le viene fatto avvenga, in un certo senso, lontano da lei.
~ J.M. Coetzee
There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was PAIN -Vishous
~ J.R. Ward
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.
~ J.R. Ward
there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.
~ J.R. Ward
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.
~ J.R. Ward
It was the worst hurt he had ever known.
~ Jack London
There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress
~ Umar
Could it be that we allow the conditions in our lives to distract us from the meaning of our lives?
~ T.D. Jakes
my head hurt in a petty nagging way that wasn't quite worth a painkiller.
~ Tana French
I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.
~ Tanith Lee
Today was a fairytale you were the prince I used to be a damsel in distress you took me by the hand and you picked me up at six today was a fairytale.
~ Taylor Swift
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
I was born in Brazil and grew up in the '70s under a climate of political distress, and I was forced to learn to communicate in a very specific way - in a sort of a semiotic black market. You couldn't really say what you wanted to say; you had to invent ways of doing it. You didn't trust information very much.
~ Vik Muniz
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
~ Paul von Hindenburg
The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.
~ Isaac Watts
The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness. The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.
~ Sakya Pandita
Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.
~ Gautama Buddha
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
~ Confucius
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read. Elsewhere
~ Neal Stephenson