Distress Quotes

All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not the power to attend to it. I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. When I opened the shutters and looked out at the wet wild morning, all of a leaden hue; when I walked from room to room; when I sat down again shivering, before the fire, waiting for my laundress to appear; I thought how miserable I was, but hardly knew why, or how long I had been so, or on what day of the week I made the reflection, or even who I was that made it.

Charles Dickens

There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.

The words 'good' and 'love' have become so trivialized in our culture--not that our definitions were so accurate to begin with--that, in times of distress or disappointment, we struggle to believe that God is either.

Then I’m suddenly reminded of how I get engulfed with nightmares of Mom’s death as soon as I fall asleep. Hesitantly, I call to him, “Hey, Adrian?”“Yeah?”“Can you hold my hand the entire night?” My voice comes out as a quiet whisper.There’s a pause. I’m almost afraid to meet his eyes. Heartbeat picking up faster, his fingers interweave with mine and lace them together. I turn almost reflexively and I’m faced with his eyes—burning so green that it’s hard to look away. And for a second—one second, there is this feeling that flits in my chest, making my breath catch.Then his eyes close and I blink slowly—feeling as I’m in a dream-like trance. Then mine slide close too after a while of memorizing this moment, this moment of silent peacefulness.The gentle pressure of his hand holding mine coaxes me into sleep.This time, there’s only a soothing blankness. And we sleep just like that; backs curved together, my head folded in his chest. As we hold hands, I fall into the awaiting darkness.

L. Jayne

I was free, free from all the distress and angst i felt before. Her red string of fate was tied to someone else and my thread was broken.

Shreyansh Jaiswal

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied logic and is unaware of the impossibility.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Some people will still find a way to create a fire with wet logs.

Anthony Liccione

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

Kilroy J. Oldster

I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

James Patterson

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me at once, until by virtue of a supreme spasm I am catapulted in the opposite direction and gradually leave backwards, without having said good evening.

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades

Rohinton Mistry

Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. ‘For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.’ (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

Gregory of Nazianzus

Discouragement is root of distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Distress is a disease of the mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress, I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones. I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.~Psalm 102 NIV Bible

Jessica Fortunato

Don’t allow the fear to weaken you. You must conquer fear with faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

Tim Fargo

Looking backwardsHas never been my endeavorLost passions… bruised emotionsNever distressed me.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Anthony Liccione

Despair leads to distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sadness grieves the spirit. But sorrow refines soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace." Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.

Sheldon K. Bass

Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options.

Kilroy J. Oldster

when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If finding a woman in your bed is so distressing, magus, you should rethink the direction your life’s taken.

The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we fall, we will rise again.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Rest, refreshed and revived your soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are wonderful sacred-soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to be positive than negative.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the courage to live life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t cry for them to be happy. Find courage to overcome the circumstance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

The Lord shall be your comfort in times of distress.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.

Matshona Dhliwayo

With a good music and a good dance, you enhance your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is an individual race of endurance.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are a wonderful sacred-soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I carry my burdens to the Lord. He lightens the weight on my shoulders.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.

Lailah Gifty Akita

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May your heart be joyful to overcome painful situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I hold on to faith and hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I suffered in my spirit, so that my soul will be restored.

Lailah Gifty Akita

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.

I amBroken single motherDisconnected loverSlow motion dresserDark secret confessorWhite flag trendProfessional dead end

Casey Renee Kiser

Affliction equips the suffering to empathize with others in anguish and not only does it strengthen them, it enables them to be consoling comforters in a world full of hurt.

Donna Lynn Hope

God afflicts people for a reason

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we're forced to become acquainted with sadness. There's no antibiotic for the ridding of distress, and no alleviation of these intervals of pain we must encounter. Behind our eyes, are all these things: our stories, our dreams, our deficiencies, and our scars. Today would leave a scar.

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 have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius

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