Distress Quotes

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

~ Stephen King

Find the courage to live life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t cry for them to be happy. Find courage to overcome the circumstance.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to be positive than negative.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are wonderful sacred-soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Rest, refreshed and revived your soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we fall, we will rise again.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord gives the bread of adversity and the water of affliction for spiritual rebirth.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If finding a woman in your bed is so distressing, magus, you should rethink the direction your life’s taken.

~ Brandon Nolta

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

when distress comes your ways, pause and ponder

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Children do not always appreciate their parents encouraging them to explore and grow. The selfishness of a child manifests itself in his or her intent to remain a child and never enter an adult world of distress, disappointment, and jadedly surrendering an envisioned life by making commitments that limit boundless options.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The effects of overworking,You forget which day it is.You think fast than what you write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Offering thanks and singing praises to God, compels the Lord to act in our behalf, to either calm the storm to a whisper, or to give us the strength to endure the storm. Whichever He chooses, He brings us out of our distress and into His peace. Meet Him on the Mountain pg. 138.

~ Sheldon K. Bass

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

~ Winston Graham

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.

~ William Styron

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the care of the victims of the depression rests upon the locality — its individuals, organizations and Government. It rests, first of all, perhaps, upon the private agencies of philanthropy, secondly, other social organizations, and last, but not least, the Church. Yet all agree that to leave to the locality the entire responsibility would result in placing the heaviest burden in most cases upon those who are the least able to bear it. In other words, the communities that have the most difficult problem, like Detroit, would be the communities that would have to bear the heaviest of the burdens. And so the State should step in to equalize the burden by providing for a large portion of the care of the victims of poverty and by providing assistance and guidance for local communities. Above and beyond that duty of the States the national Government has a responsibility.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

God cherish and value our prayer more profoundly in our days of abundance instead of distress.

~ Aditya Ajmera

When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, ‘Pray.’ Ask God to guide you and he will take good care of you.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

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

Sadness grieves the spirit. But sorrow refines soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Despair leads to distress.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In all you do, try being a WOW, and not a woe.

~ Anthony Liccione

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction. Jesus uses the whole range of our experiences to wean us from earth and woo us to Heaven.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When you are wronged and your heart and feelings are hardened, do not be distressed, for this has happened providentially; but be glad and reject the thoughts that arise within you, knowing that if they are destroyed at the stage when they are only provocations, their evil consequences will be cut off, whereas if the thoughts persist the evil may be expected to develop.

~ St. Mark The Ascetic

he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, 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

In the wilderness, be not afraid. Trust God to deliver you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Looking backwardsHas never been my endeavorLost passions… bruised emotionsNever distressed me.

~ Balroop Singh

Confidence is what we get when we take fear, face it and replace it.

~ Tim Fargo

Distress leads to dimness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.

~ Anthony Liccione

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!

~ Jane Austen

Don’t allow the fear to weaken you. You must conquer fear with faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat my food. In my distress, I groan aloud and am reduced to skin and bones. I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.~Psalm 102 NIV Bible

~ Jessica Fortunato

You would be surprise with how many distressed hearts that you could touch by living a life of positive purpose.

~ Hafiz

Distress is a disease of the mind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Discouragement is root of distress.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. ‘For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.’ (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

~ Gregory Of Nazianzus

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, the hours when he felt the very walls and ceilings were encrusted with the distress of of unhappy decades

~ Rohinton Mistry

When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more and more convulsive, like a constipated dog, or one suffering from worms, overturning furniture, in the midst of my family all trying to embrace me at once, until by virtue of a supreme spasm I am catapulted in the opposite direction and gradually leave backwards, without having said good evening.

~ Samuel Beckett