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Quotes About Distress

Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
~ Robert Kennedy
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.
~ Charles Dickens
If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
~ James Nachtwey
Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.
~ Vernon Howard
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
~ Stella Gibbons
There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
~ Victor Hugo
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.
~ Neil Postman
If haunted by an emotional upheaval in your life, try writing about it or sharing the experience with others. However, if you catch yourself telling exactly the same story over and over in order to get past your distress, rethink your strategy. Try writing or talking about your trauma in a completely different way. How
~ James W. Pennebaker
Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
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~ Jane O'Connor
If you can access the sense of your inherent preciousness, you can rise above shame. If you can meditate and feel equanimity, you may be able to rise above your distress.
~ Jasmin Lee Cori
Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.
~ Edith Wharton
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. Blushing has little less power; and modesty in general, which is a tacit allowance of imperfection, is itself considered as an amiable quality, and certainly heightens every other that is so.
~ Edmund Burke
I must therefore depend on the Greeks, whose prejudices, in some degree, are subdued by their distress.
~ Edward Gibbon
One could think of American society as Bishop Warburton thought of the English Church, that like the ark of Noah it "is worth saving, not for the sake of the unclean beasts that almost filled it and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality that was as much distressed by the stink within as by the tempest without." Nevertheless,
~ Albert Jay Nock
For Don Abbondio, the return trip was not nearly as distressing as the way there had been, but it wasn't exactly pleasant, either. His panic was replaced by relief, but a hundred other irritations soon began to crop up in his heart, not unlike the ground where a large tree has been uprooted: It remains bare for a period, but then fills up with weeds.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
beget injustice and oppression of a part of the community, and engender schemes which, though they gratify a momentary inclination or desire, terminate in general distress, dissatisfaction, and disgust.
~ Alexander Hamilton
It was his duty as a card-carrying Knight in Shining Armor to answer the call of a woman in distress. Okay, he didn't actually have a card, but still...
~ Alexandra Ivy
Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Friends' from my phone because it was wasting too much of my time.
~ Joshua Bell