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Quotes About Distress

At the edge of his dreams, there was often a sound like the faint, distant cry of someone in distress, and for minutes after waking, he would feel the anxiety of some duty unfulfilled.
~ William Peter Blatty
Well, what's wrong?" "I don't know, Doc, I just can't describe it! Please come over right away! Come now!
~ William Peter Blatty
Distill'dAlmost to jelly with the act of fear.
~ William Shakespeare
This music mads me: let it sound no more.
~ William Shakespeare
A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day's pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.
~ William Styron
A deep distress hath humanized my Soul.
~ William Wordsworth
A deep distress hath humanised my soul.
~ William Wordsworth
A deep distress hath humanized my Soul. - Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
~ William Wordsworth
Those who experience symptoms complain of abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and intestinal distress. Some people, however, don't experience obvious signs of gastrointestinal trouble, but they could nevertheless be experiencing a silent attack elsewhere in their body, such as in their nervous system.
~ David Perlmutter
Jasper, who is six, is the only one of us who responds appropriately. He wails, inconsolable for an hour.
~ David Sheff
It is not a look of horror, consternation, or even distress. More often than not, the last visage of a murdered man resembles that of a flustered schoolchild to whom the logic of a simple equation has just been revealed.
~ David Simon
By this time poor little Alfie was in great distress. The pain of having his tooth pulled out was a
~ David Walliams
HELP! Someone's trodden on me bits!
~ David Walliams
Should I be in distress? In a meadow? You mean if the cows organize some sort of attack? I have extensive experience with cows. They almost never do that." "Forget
~ Deanna Raybourn
Distress leads to dimness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
~ Ambrose Bierce
But even that distress must be balanced by enthusiastic hope. It is his task always to sound the note of biblical optimism that is warranted by the promises of God. A counselor must be, above much else, a man of hope.
~ Jay E. Adams
Confound it, Madam, my head is out of bounds! It's the one spot where I can have a bit of peace!
~ Jean Anouilh
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
From doing to listening in the end, the most important thing is not to do things for people who are poor and in distress, but to enter into relationship with them, to be with them and help them find confidence in themselves and discover their own gifts. . . . The promise of Jesus is to help us discover that the poor are a source of life and not just objects of our charity.
~ Jean Vanier
His face was pure pain.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
Fishing poles. The weapon of choice for the traveler in distress. We also had lots and lots of marshmallows. Maybe we could immobilize these guys with sticky gooey goodness.
~ Jeff Strand
She'd probably be more upset over the loss of her phone than being kidnapped.
~ Jeff Strand
A teacher of meditation once told the story of a man who wanted nothing to do with the stress of life, so he retreated to a cave to meditate day and night for the rest of his life. But soon he came out again, driven to overwhelming distress by the sound of the dripping of water in his cave. The moral is that, at least to some extent, the stresses will always be there
~ Elaine N. Aron