Quotes tagged ‘Distress’

“Doesn't this distress any of you? How this city treats its poor and underprivileged? Surely you must see the staggering numbers of them as you travel along the city? Just yesterday I saw a woman and her child dead, in the middle of the road. It was absolutely horrible. Surely we must do something to…”

— Matthew B. Roberts, Claire Randall, Caitriona Balfe, imdb.com

“Queen Katherine: Though I love Your Majesty and I'm loyal to you, in every way, I cannot disguise my distress and unhappiness. King Henry VIII: Well, you're going to have to.”

— Michael Hirst, Henry VIII of England, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, imdb.com

“The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths Peace.”

— Martha Washington, amazon.com

“These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity, for they are merciful. As if their own needs and their own distress were not enough, they take upon themselves the distress and humiliat…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“One people will we be — a band of brothers; No danger, no distress shall sunder us. We will be freemen as our fathers were, And sooner welcome death than live as slaves. We will rely on God's almighty arm, And never quail before the power of man.”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“Little things comfort us because little things distress us.”

— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com

“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, en.wikiquote.org

“For many of us, a second chance to a man of the past usually ends with distress and what feels like never-ending PMS on our end.”

— Penina Remler, elitedaily.com

“Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.”

— Herbert Gasser, amazon.com

“But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? His unconscious was so cowardly that the b…”

— Milan Kundera, amazon.ca