Top 570 Distress Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I don't allow the stress of the unknown to affect my health, and I listen to my body when it sends me distress signals.

The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.

Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

I can only say, don't be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

It seems to me more important actually to share someones distress than to use smooth words about it.

If some student belonging to weaker section of society suffers distress, humanity says it must be addressed.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

Wonder is a bulky emotion. When you let it fill your heart and mind, there isn't room for anxiety, distress or anything else.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress.

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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

I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

In the Navy, the captain doesn't leave the bridge when the ship is in distress. It's a pretty basic leadership principle.

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness.

Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.

What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

Some of the most beautiful bird calls are cries of distress and fear....these sculptures are a way for me to express my cry.

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

'Oscar Wao' for example cohered in a period of terrible distress. All the novels that I wanted to write were not happening.

The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here.

Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

I will buy sun dresses that I rip, burn and distress and then sew them back together.