Distress Quotes

“Discouragement is root of distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Distress is a disease of the mind.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Dancing dismiss distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Let's cause some senators distress.

— Peggy Noonan

“Distress is fearful gloom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

— James Hervey

“Don't be your own devil.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Despair leads to distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

— Arsene Houssaye

“In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.”

— Anthony Liccione

“A deep distress hath humanised my soul.”

— William Wordsworth

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

— Nicholas Galitzine

“See what I mean? You fell off. You're such a damsel in distress.”

— Peach-Pit

Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”

— Blaise Pascal

“If you dance daily, you shall expel any seed of distress in thy soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Screaming Is A Bad For The Voice, But It's Good For The Heart Especially when You're In Distress...

— Pacifiersucker

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

— Milan Kundera

If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed…

— Laura Schlessinger

“distress that dispersed into the room. “You will find him, won’t you, Inspector?” “We’ll do our best,” I said. The headmaster’s office…

— Gilly Macmillan

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating…

— Sigourney Weaver

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

— Viktor E. Frankl

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

— Julius Rosenwald

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get…

— Jewel

In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s)…

— Tom Gross

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of…

— Thomas Carlyle

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of…

— Thomas a Kempis

The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of…

— Gail Carriger

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us…

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those…

— Bill Nighy

Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk,…

— Ben Aaronovitch

When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is…

— Vicki Robin

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring…

— Joseph Addison

It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and…

— Judith Martin

'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears…

— Maximus the Confessor

Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us to rejoice; With the farming…

— Anonymous

When we believe that God hears us, it is but natural that we should be eager to hear Him. Only from Him…

— Charles Spurgeon

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with…

— Soren Kierkegaard