Quotes About Distress

In summary, to reestablish agency, a NARM therapist explores with clients how they are contributing to their own suffering—how they may be consciously or unconsciously instrumental in creating their own distress as adults.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

These books were a way of escaping from the unhappiness of my life.

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?

You deepen the injury. It is sufficient already.

My poor girl, what is the matter?' She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots. 'It's nothing to you what's the matter. It don't signify to any one.

There are very few moments in a man's existence, when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

There is one inescapable fact: by the time the SOS was sent, the Morro Castle was beyond help.

You, man, who read these lines, they are written to you by a brother who has suffered much. My thoughts are wrung from the deepest distress, yet still they try to find expression. O, that you could and would understand me! Some people are capable of deep, heartfelt, self-sacrificing love, yet the only possible object of their love is a person of their own sex. There are said to be such women, and I know that such men exist. I myself am such a man. These confessions contain a life of anguish.

The human tendency to evaluate one's well-being by comparing it with that of another is the cause of Duryodhana's distress.

Nanak, the whole world is in distress. He, who believes in the Name, becomes victorious.

In summer darkness, stars in her south-facing window, she makes - or accepts - a decision in her heart. There is fear again with it, and sorrow, but also a kind of easing of disquiet and distress, which is what acceptance is said to bring, is it not?

Reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

about voices that can cry out for help in our sleep.

Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

Dr. Cross, please come! Please! Dr. Cross the loud shouts continued. I didn't recognize the woman's voice, but privacy doesn't seem to count when your first name is Doctor.

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.