I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies. — Oliver James Copy Share Image
In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone… — Shreyansh Jaiswal Copy Share Image
It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes. — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to… — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent… — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
“These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters are no sign that God has forsaken you. They are sent… — James Thomas Copy Share Image
The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
In times of economic distress, it's only natural for people - and Americans have done this for many years - to look… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I don't know about being a Catholic anymore, though I had a great romance with the Church. But its male hierarchy causes… — Joan Hackett Copy Share Image
The difference between Pound and Whitman is not between the democrat who in deep distress could look hopefully toward the future and… — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
“It is always easy to mock 'distress,' but we are its contemporaries; we are at the endpoint of what Nous, ratio, &… — Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, don’t you look at the world and wonder what kind of madhouse you’re living in? Have you ever felt, deep down,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you… — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
Someone who has a disability is not necessarily in distress. You may be embarrassing and inconveniencing someone by butting in and making… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
“Don’t worry, he said, I never leave a damsel in the same state of distress I found her in.” — Emily Carter Copy Share Image
“It's a damn good thing I'm not the damsel in distress type; we'd all be f*cked.” — RM Gilmore Copy Share Image
Relief of distress or compassion shown to victims of misfortune. A blessing that is an act of Divine compassion. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
If you are in distress, you are in trouble. You're hurting either physically or mentally. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress. — Aimee Liu Copy Share Image
Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving. — Corey Anderson Copy Share Image
A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic. — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
