Distress Quotes

Politics is such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

There are bitter weeds in England.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

I'm always in trouble.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

If there is a worse place than Hell, I must be in it.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

I think I need a psychiatrist because I do believe I am mentally disturbed in some way.

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

Now it is nothing but torture.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

In the poor we meet Jesus in his most distressing disguises.

I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much.

Much unhappiness has come to the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

Pain is the difference between what is and what I want it to be.