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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Reading, Fearless

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• I try to direct people in distress to the right resources, where they can get comprehensive help. I've heard from many people that simply putting down in a letter what is going on in their lives is therapeutic in and of itself.

  Emily Yoffe

  People, Trying, Letters

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me". Ask Me Anything, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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

  Sophocles

  Fall, People, Sorrow

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• In this wild world the fondest and the best
  Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

  George Crabbe

  Adversity, Wild World, World

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

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Mean, Men, Despair

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.104, Beacon Press

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• Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Turns, Distressing, Ryodan

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.244, Delacorte Press

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• 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.

  Epictetus

  Thinking, Trying, Watches

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• A deep distress has humanised my soul.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, My Soul

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• When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Christian, Grieving

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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

  Robert Burns

  Brother, Son, Affliction

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.54

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• I distress you; I draw fast to an end.

  Charles Dickens

  Ends, Draws

  Charles Dickens, General Press (2016). “A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution”, p.143, GENERAL PRESS

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• God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Waiting, Crowns, Flesh

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• Character is revealed in the power to discern the suffering of other people when we ourselves are suffering; in the ability to detect the hunger of others when we are hungry; and in the power to reach out and extend compassion for the spiritual agony of others when we are in the midst of our own spiritual distress.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Character, Compassion

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• Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Mother, Children, Husband

  Lillian B. Rubin (1981). “Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self”, Harpercollins

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• Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or the warrior, strong-willed woman. Chris wanted a variety of things in this Guinevere. He predominately wanted her to be real and natural, and make mistakes and be passionate, and be the feisty young girl, but then also completely naive, innocent and ignorant, at the same time.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Girl, Strong, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.

  Solon

  Government, Vices, Slavery

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• When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.

  Mencius

  Children, Fall, Men

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• People are never helped in their suffering by what they think for themselves, but only by revelation of a wisdom greater than their own. It is this which lifts them out of their distress.

  Carl Jung

  Adversity, Thinking, People

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• And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Years, Thought Provoking, Mind

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.130, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It is with enormous distress that France has just learned of the monstrous attacks there is no other word for it that have just struck the United States of America. In these horrifying circumstances, the entire people of France, and I want to emphasize this, stand by the people of America. They express their friendship and solidarity in this tragedy. Naturally, I want to assure President Bush of my total support. France, as you know, has always condemned and unreservedly condemns terrorism, and considers that terrorism must be combated by all possible means.

  Jacques Chirac

  Mean, America, People

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• Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation from all we have loved and lived with. It is often accompanied by much bodily pain and distress. It opens the door to judgement and eternity - to heaven or to hell. It is an event after which there is no change, or space for repentance.

  J. C. Ryle

  Pain, Doors, Space

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• The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Science, Psychology, Mind

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.235

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

  Moses ibn Ezra

  Heart, Men, Sorrow

  Moses Ibn Ezra (1945). “‏מחברת משירי משה בן יעקב אבן עזרא /‏”

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• To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What should be done then? Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Learn to behave thus even in deepest distress and keep yourself that way in any and every estate of life. I can give you no better advice than to find God where you lost him.

  Meister Eckhart

  Faith, Gone Away, Giving

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

  Max Beerbohm

  Leader, Pace, Oblivion

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.114, New York Review of Books

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