Quotes About Distress

Prue felt like someone had bored a hole in her stomach the size of a basketball

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability he has.

Alberta felt her face grow old and shrivelled at her own words. She was a shadow already, half old, distressing, comic. Something happened from year to year, suspicion became knowledge, bad dreams reality. A weariness crept over her, more intense and pervasive than any she had known before. It sat in her back, sapping her strength. She sank down into it as if it were an abyss, sank inwards into gaping emptiness.

Jesus!" "Are you hurt?" "Jesus!" "Walk down the hallway and come back when you have more vocabulary.

Amelia, I can't discuss this now. Or I'll start weeping and throw myself to the floor." "Heavens, don't do that. Someone might trip over you.

don't want everything that's going on to be a…distraction for you two. I don't want you to

Away! we know that tears are vain, That Death nor heeds nor hears distress: Will this unteach us to complain? Or make one mourner weep the less? And thou — who tell'st me to forget, Thy looks are wan, thine eyes are wet.

She let out a small choked sound that might have been a laugh or genuine distress. "Café…Nirvana?" He didn't try to hold back his amusement at her shock. "That's right." "Café Nirvana, in the town of Little Paradise?

Tae was no damsel in distress. She was resilient, tenacious, and brave as hell, and … damn. That was attractive.

Classic lady in distress. For one of those liberated, professional women, she knew exactly how to jerk my old-fashioned chains around.

sensations of somatic distress occurring in waves lasting from twenty minutes to an hour at a time, a feeling of tightness in the throat, choking with shortness of breath, need for sighing, and an empty feeling in the abdomen, lack of muscular power, and an intense subjective distress described as tension or mental pain." Tightness in the throat.

At the end of the entry Musgrave noted without comment, "Tenth anniversary of my marriage." For once, he left his deep distress undescribed.

It's a bad day when my glasses are M.I.A.

Woke up from a nightmare about being pregnant and having a miscarriage. Most horrifying dream I've had yet...

ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. The man was in such deep distress, Said Tom, that I could do no less Than give him good advice. Said Jim: If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done. --Jebel Jocordy.

Just when I am disheartened, just when cares oppressed, Just when my way is darkest, just when I am distressed, Then is my Savior near me, He knows my every care; Jesus will never leave me; He helps my burden to bear.

My case is not unique: I am afraid of dying and distressed at being in the world.

O look, look in the mirror O look in your distress Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

Though language may be useless, for No words men write can stop the war Or measure up to the relief Of its immeasurable grief, Yet truth, like love and sleep, resents Approaches that are too intense, And often when the searcher stood Before the Oracle, it would Ignore his grown-up earnestness But not the child of his distress

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.

At the thought of her death I felt a confusing pang of genuine distress mixed with elation

It felt as if we were fighting something worse than Anne, some demon that possessed her, that possessed all of us Boleyns: ambition—the devil that had brought us to this little room and brought my sister to this insane distress, and us to this savage battle.