Top 570 Distress Quotes & Sayings

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

I’m not a damsel and there is no distress

National Socialist Germany wishes for peace because it recognises the simple fact that no war would be likely to substantially to ameliorate the state of distress in Europe. The distress would probably be made the greater thereby. If only the leaders and rulers had wanted peace, the people would never have wished for war.

A deep distress has humanised my soul.

As brother stands by brother in distress, binding up his wounds and soothing his pain, so let us show our love towards our enemy. There is no deeper distress to be found in the world, no pain more bitter than our enemy's. Nowhere is service more necessary or more blessed than when we serve our enemies.

Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?

There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more sad looks, sympathetic vocalisations and comforting. This echoes what you find in adulthood: more women report frequently sharing the emotional distress of their friends.

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

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't center too much on ourselves, then [we] increase our courage and our determination to remedy the pain, not our distress. If we have unconditional compassion, then it increases our courage. So that's the difference, self-centered motivation versus altruistic motivation.

Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.

Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress.

When Berkshire Hathaway laid out three billion dollars for GE today, we didn't spend it, we invested it. When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it. Now, they're investing it in distress type assets but they're buying them at distress prices if they buy them at market. It's the kind of stuff I love to do. I just don't have 700 million. Maybe we could go in it together.

Three fires is the international distress signal.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?

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

Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the filch on an icy street. Much the same age and build as Beamabeth, and far more beleaguered. What made a girl a ‘damsel in distress’? Were they not allowed claws? Mosca had a hunch that if all damsels had claws they would spend a lot less time ‘in distress’.

Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

Happy is already a state, so if you create something that's happy... OK, wonderful... but when you're in a place of distress or trauma, there are so many more directions that can go in to me. Something that's happy can only truly go in one direction, whereas with something like distress, anger, trauma, there are so many more interesting possibilities that those emotions can create.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

In times of distress strengthen your heart.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

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

Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

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 some guy to help them.

I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.

Let's cause some senators distress.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

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

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

Financial problems cause distress and loss of self-respect.

Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress