Top 137 Distressing Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
There are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.
The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
Every day I see Jesus Christ in all his distressing disguises.
But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.
I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental Ships of the same force.
I think the smartest thing for people to do to manage very distressing emotions is to take a medication if it helps, but don't do only that. You also need to train your mind.
Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing.
The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose.
Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.
It's distressing to see anyone in the community struggle to access public transport - whether they're elderly, customers with a disability or families with prams.
Reconciliation is a long process. We don't have the kind of race clashes that we thought would happen. What we have is xenophobia, and it's very distressing. But maybe you ought to be lenient with us. We've been free for just 12 years.
In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.
The sheer number of paintings of unconscious women is distressing.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
What I saw in Baltimore was distressing and it tells me we need stronger policies in this country.
Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.
It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.
It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.
It can be a little distressing to have to overintellectualize yourself.
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.
I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
It doesn't matter how good the movie is. What matters is what it takes during the opening weekend. It's slightly distressing sometimes but that's how it works.
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.
The more distressing the memory, the more persistent it's presence.
In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.
The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.
There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing.
Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it.
Unless we believe and see Jesus in the appearance of bread on the altar, we will not be able to see him in the distressing disguise of the poor.
The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
