Quotes About Distress

Elizabeth's tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knew it would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

As I head back up the stairs, I hear the dryer make a sound of great mechanical distress, nnnnnnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee , and I pause for only a moment before I decide that if I leave, I will no longer intimidate the machine, and it will then do its job very well without me.

Lumawoo, come quickly! Beowulf's leg is worse.

The human brain just isn't designed to take in a whole world's worth of disturbing news. Most of us have enough trouble with the more mundane problems of finding inner peace and securing happiness for our loved ones.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

Those that cast off the duties of religion in their prosperity cannot expect the comforts of it when they come to be in distress. Justly

Then we lapse into silence. It's these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.

Empathy is indeed needed to trigger the arising of compassion, but the space of that compassion should be vast enough so that empathy does not turn into uncontainable distress.

Psychologist H. L. Hollingworth said that happiness requires problems, plus a mental attitude that is ready to meet distress with action toward a solution.

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.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened.

A dead look in her eye, a thin grimace to her lips, a sick pallor to her skin that spoke of despair

Ow, ow, ow, Billy hurt! Billy wanna go home!

Hustling, the action, the performance, is embraced because it often provides the only relief from economic misery. The hustler is determined not to suffer silently and turns distress to opportunity.

we must absolutely deepen our understanding of male development—and alter the limited paradigms we use—right away. To keep saying that "masculinity" causes violence is to specifically not study epidemiological and toxicological causation for violence, and thus, perpetuate a cycle of violence and distress into the next generation.

To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world—it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty.

lying willfully, adamantly, without distress or regret, and with absolute disregard of consequences can be a bulwark if not a fail-safe defense.

Everything hurts.

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!

so often that she'd feared for

I must think about something else for a while. But then I remember his warn arms and his big strong legs touching mine and how hard and wide his chest was and how hot his kiss was, and I got outside and feed the chickens. They are getting mighty fat.

When I tried to let Mom know how disturbed I was by Lou's mean and abusive behavior toward Brandon, she replied in exasperation, "Nancy, why do I always have trouble with you? Only you? Never the boys! You're sick and a troublemaker!