Distress Quotes

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.