Distress Quotes - Page 6

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

  John Flavel

  Should

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• You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Your Time, Causes, Common

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• I am the mother of the wicked, as I am the mother of the virtuous. Never fear. Whenever you are in distress, say to yourself, ‘I have a mother.

  Sarada Devi

  Mother, Wicked, Never Fear

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• How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

  Anne Bronte

  Tears, Odd, Shed

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.310, Diversion Books

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• There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

  Joseph Addison

  Adventure, Men, Knights

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.138

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• Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.

  Jessica Alba

  Strong, Thinking, People

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• The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.

  Brigham Young

  Compassion, Doctrine, Charity

  Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”

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• For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

  Max Beerbohm

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• It distresses me deeply that ideas are not to be circulated freely in the USA if certain persons have their way. One of the things that was great about this country was that I could say anything and that everyone else could say anything and we would compare all possible ideas and arrive at opinions.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, Ideas, Usa

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• By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mistake, Imagine, Virtue

  "Ariadne". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1895.

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• Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

  Emile Zola

  People, Atmosphere, Gathering

  Emile Zola (1984). “The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.

  Aeschylus

  Struggle, Men, Hot Headed

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• But it is evident, that these bursts of universal distress are more dreaded than felt; thousands and ten thousands flourish in youth, and wither in age, without the knowledge of any other than domestic evils, and share the same pleasures and vexa­tions, whether their kings are mild or cruel, whether the armies of their country pursue their enemies or retreat before them.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Kings, Army

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.474

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

  Bert Hellinger

  Joy, Goodness, Criteria

  Bert Hellinger, Gabriele Ten Hövel (1999). “Acknowledging what is: Conversations with Bert Hellinger”, p.162, Zeig Tucker & Theisen Publishers

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• I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.

  Primo Levi

  Memories, Men, Clothes

  "The Mirror Maker" by Primo Levi, ("The Premise"), 1986.

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• In the first place, lawyers better remember they are human beings, and a human being who hasn't his periods of doubts and distresses and disappointments must be a cabbage, not a human being. That is number one.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Disappointment, Numbers, Doubt

  Harvard University. Harvard Law School Association. Council, Felix Frankfurter (1960). “Proceedings in honor of Mr. Justice Frankfurter and distinguished alumni at the meeting of the Council, Harvard Law School Association in Cambridge, April 30, 1960”

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• I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spiritual, Believe, Offering

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.284

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• You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Evil, Soul, Earth

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.209, Delphi Classics

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Believe, Names

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75

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• Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.

  Samuel Richardson

  Light, Mind, Overcoming

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.3

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• No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

  Franz Schubert

  Music, Grief, Joy

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• Thus disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last was complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct.

  Charles Darwin

  Lasts, Rate, Conclusion

  Charles Darwin (2010). “The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 29: “Erasmus Darwin” by Ernest Krause, with a Preliminary Notice by Charles Darwin; “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin” Edited by Nora Barlow; and Consolidated Index”, p.119, NYU Press

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• It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and invigorated his pursuit; nor has any man found the evils of life so formidable in reality, as they were described to him by his own imagination; every species of distress brings with it some peculiar supports, some unforeseen means of resisting, or powers of enduring.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.28

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• Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

  Alan Hirsch

  Real, People, Leader

  "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.

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• For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind - to even the wisest and cleverest of us - is the plague of poverty.

  Ihara Saikaku

  Physicians, Four, Poverty

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 1), 1688.

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