Quotes About Distress

On everyone's back, there was a sack. In everyone's eyes, tears and distress.

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed. I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress-what would be the point?

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.

During my first few weeks in Italy, all my Protestant synapses were zinging in distress, looking for a task. I wanted to take on pleasure like a homework assignment, or a giant science fair project.

your God is a trinity. There are three necessary prayers and they have three words each. They are these, 'Lord, have mercy. Thee I adore. Into Thy hands.' Not difficult to remember. If in times of distress you hold to these, you will do well.

She could not think about it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ any of it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ without going to pieces.

And it was in that moment of distress and confusion that the whip of terror laid its most nicely calculated lash about his heart.

What I do when it distresses me that there's something I can't remember, is. Are you listening? Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying. I imagine that whatever it is I've forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird. What kind of bird? Elisabeth said. A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You'll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it to tight, and I let it sleep. And that's that.

What I do when it distresses me that there's something I can't remember, is. Are you listening? Yes, Elisabeth said through the crying. I imagine that whatever it is I've forgotten is folded close to me, like a sleeping bird. What kind of bird? Elisabeth said. A wild bird, Daniel said. Any kind. You'll know what kind when it happens. Then, what I do is, I just hold it there, without holding it too tight, and I let it sleep. And that's that.

It was a single word-- a word smeared across the rag in shaking, uneven letters: "HELP!" "By George!" exclaimed one of the brakemen. "The little girl's right. That spells 'Help!' plain enough." "It-- it is written in something red, sir," cried Ruth, her voice trembling. "See! It is blood!

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Every day I get something in the post telling me to worry about something else. Worry mail is big business.

I think we live in a constant state of emergency.

I find the world extremely upsetting - not in the way an average person does but more in the way a crazy person might.

Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.

McKenna dropped to her knees, then fell to her side on the asphalt, moaning

Nikos looked at me with concern. "We're in deep trouble, Bartolomeo.

Great," I said. "Another conference call. I have really got to start blocking your number.

Ughhhhhhhh!' he said. 'Arghhhhhhhh! Ouchhhhhhhh!

Smith felt distressed at the failure to respond in kind and interpreted it as failure on his own part. He realized miserably that, time after time, he had managed to bring agitation to these other creatures when his purpose had been to create oneness.