Distress Quotes - Page 21

• People in distress never think that you feel enough.

  Samuel Johnson

  Thinking, People, Pity

  Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.7170, Delphi Classics

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• ...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself.

  Brad Meltzer

  Father, People, Waiting

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• We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Feelings, Wish, May

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• The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be.

  Christiane Northrup

  Pain, Moving, Healing

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.34, Hay House, Inc

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• Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.

  Plutarch

  Envy, Pleasure, Advantage

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• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  Charles Dickens

  Taken, Skeletons, Wind

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit”, p.448, Cosimo, Inc.

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• As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Luxury, Doe

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• Rarest of all is the man who can and does reason at all times, quickly, accurately, inclusively, despite hope or fear or bodily distress, without egocentric bias or thalmic disturbance, with correct memory, with clear distinction between fact, assumption, and non-fact.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Motivational, Memories, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Assignment in Eternity”, Pocket Books

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• This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart. It will not sympathize with my distresses, but then, it will not laugh at them, and, if I keep it close, it cannot tell again; so it is, perhaps, the best friend I could have for the purpose.

  Anne Bronte

  Heart, Laughing, Purpose

  "Agnes Grey". Book by Anne Bronte, Ch. XVIII : The Miniature; Helen Graham, 1847.

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• 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

  Loss, Frustration, Intellectual

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• The more we know Him, the more we will desire to know Him. As love increases with knowledge, the more we know God, the more we will truly love Him. We will learn to love Him equally in times of distress or in times of great joy.

  Brother Lawrence

  Joy, Desire, Increase

  Brother Lawrence (2013). “The Brother Lawrence Collection”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jeaniene Frost

  Groups, Might, Chicks

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• But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

  Charles Dickens

  Great Expectations, Done, May

  Charles Dickens (2010). “Pip and the Zombies”, p.192, Lulu.com

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• When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Regret, Confused

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

  Neil Postman

  Inspirational, People, Problem

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.96, Vintage

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• Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.

  George Washington

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.374

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• People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Pain

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.94, David C Cook

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• In the hours of distress and misery, the eyes of every mortal turn to friendship; in the hours of gladness and conviviality, what is our want? It is friendship. When the heart overflows with gratitude, or with any other sweet or sacred sentiment, what is the word to which it would give utterance? A friend.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Gratitude, Sweet, Heart

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Loneliness, Ambition

  Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

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• The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

  Renata Adler

  Sex, Philosophy, Loneliness

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Tolerance, Remember

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• I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hate, Hunting, Vices

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.

  Richard Steele

  Atheist, Light, People

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

  Bernie Siegel

  Love Life, Mind, Contentment

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• "There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."

  Charles Dickens

  Jobs, Words Of Wisdom, Deception

  Charles Dickens (1873). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.477

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