Distressed Quotes

97 Distressed quotes by 82 unique authors

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you… — Marcus Aurelius
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected… — Sigmund Freud
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest. — Corrie Ten Boom
I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But… — Fernando Pessoa
Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really… — Barbara Pym
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind... — Edna St. Vincent Millay
I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I… — W. Somerset Maugham
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by your propinquity to find Your person… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?… — George MacDonald
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him â€” the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Right, then, mate, terribly sorry for my unspeakable rudeness, and I do beg your pardon. I can only say that it was caused by my… — Jeaniene Frost
I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them." "What… — Joe Hill
Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450 — Lauren Oliver
I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum.… — Carl Jung
I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have… — Anais Nin
Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. — Thomas Hardy
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I realised you owned me one night in this room. I was singing to you and you were sleeping. You made a little noise in… — Abbi Glines
There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute. — Conrad Hilton

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