Distress Quote by Sophocles Download Open image “When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.” — Sophocles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distress Fall Native People Sorrow
Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They… — Anonymous 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 good. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When people die and especially when they die tragically, others can't help but get carried away. They come up with their implausible interpretation and… — Francesca Marciano Copy Share Image
“I’ve often wondered, even to this day, why during painful times some people seem to step away from themselves and make decisions that fall… — Ann Howard Creel Copy Share Image
Sometimes we tend to be in despair when the person we care about leaves, but the truth is, it's not our loss. It's their's… — Harriet Morgan Copy Share Image
Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die. — Thomas Southerne Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
It was right then and there that she'd realized there was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. — CJ Roberts Copy Share Image
“Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Patience will benefit you in every hour, every time and every opportunity. It helps you to overcome your opponent, howsoever strong he may be.… — Abd al-Karim Qasim Copy Share Image
